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Birthdays

Theodore S. Bowers

1832-10-10 - 1866-03-07

Vestal Coffin

1792-10-10 - 1826-10-10

John Price Durbin

1800-10-10 - 1876-10-18

Edward Noel Eccleston

1836-10-10 - 1878-06-01

Leonard Marsden Gardner

1831-10-10 - 1925-02-25

Samuel Alexander Harrison

1822-10-10 - 1890-05-29

Nathaniel Garland Keirle

1833-10-10 - 1919-05-02

John William Mallet

1832-10-10 - 1912-11-17

Dandridge McRae

1829-10-10 - 1899-04-23

Samuel Jackson Randall

1828-10-10 - 1890-04-13

Robert Gould Shaw

1837-10-10 - 1863-07-18

Irwin Maclay Wallace

1813-10-10 - 1893-02-03

Henry Miller Watts

1805-10-10 - 1890-11-30

Charles Lush Wilson

1818-10-10 - 1878-03-09

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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, “Senator Broderick Killed in a Duel,” October 10, 1859	10/10/1859
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Pirates,” October 10, 1859	10/10/1859