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Birthdays

John Minor Botts

1802-09-16 - 1869-01-07

Waldo Porter Johnson

1817-09-16 - 1885-08-14

George Washington Lee

1832-09-16 - 1913-02-18

Samuel Preston Moore

1813-09-16 - 1889-05-31

Samuel Wesley Scrivener

1824-09-16 - 1904-04-06

Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow

1816-09-16 - 1891-04-26

Cornelius Van Cleef

1799-09-16 - 1875-06-13

Elijah Ward

1816-09-16 - 1882-02-07

David Flavell Woods

1837-09-16 - 1910-07-28

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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	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Greeley as an Orator,” September 16, 1859	09/16/1859
Speech	Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859	09/16/1859