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Birthdays

Richard Heron Anderson

1821-10-07 - 1879-06-26

William Brimage Bate

1826-10-07 - 1905-03-09

Watson Brown

1835-10-07 - 1859-10-19

James McHenry Caldwell

1827-10-07 - 1897-01-01

James Andrew McCauley

1822-10-07 - 1896-12-12

William Still

1821-10-07 - 1902-07-14

James Henry Thomas

1827-10-07 - 1909-06-20

John Armstrong Wright

1820-10-07 - 1891-11-02

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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

Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Electric Weaving,” October 7, 1859

10/07/1859