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Birthdays

Ambrose Everett Burnside

1824-05-23 - 1881-09-13

Henry Champion Deming

1815-05-23 - 1872-10-08

Sarah Margaret Fuller

1810-05-23 - 1850-07-19

Charles Hall

1827-05-23 - 1914-04-02

William Michael Harnsberger

1835-05-23 - 1862-09-19

John Shirk

1843-05-23 - 1913-02-20

Eli Slifer

1818-05-23 - 1888-06-02

Lewis Tappan

1788-05-23 - 1873-06-21

John Ogden Winner

1826-05-23 - 1895-09-25

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Events

Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

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Documents

Newspaper

Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Gold Hunters,” May 23, 1859

05/23/1859