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Birthdays

George Washington Lafayette Bickley

1823-07-18 - 1867-08-10

Thomas Latimer Cathcart

1807-07-18 - 1881-10-28

Dewitt Clinton Giddings

1827-07-18 - 1903-08-19

Wesley Atwood Hoffman

1844-07-18 - 1896-12-02

George Hunt Pendleton

1825-07-18 - 1889-11-24

John Mansfield Sims

1821-07-18 - 1900-01-01

Joseph Benton Stayman

1832-07-18 - 1901-07-14

William Stewart

1759-07-18 - 1848-03-30

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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, “Can’t Be True,” July 18, 1859

07/18/1859