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Birthdays

Isaac Erwin Avery

1828-12-20 - 1863-07-03

George Alexander Coffey

1820-12-20 - 1864-02-24

Rodolphus Holland Duell

1824-12-20 - 1891-02-11

Edgar Everett Hastings

1846-12-20 - 1901-02-09

Laura Smith Haviland

1808-12-20 - 1898-04-20

Samuel Jordan Kirkwood

1813-12-20 - 1894-09-01

Richard Lucian Page

1807-12-20 - 1901-08-09

Amy Kirby Post

1802-12-20 - 1889-01-29

John Winfield Wallace

1818-12-20 - 1889-06-24

William Wilkins

1779-12-20 - 1865-06-23

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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	Hartford (CT) Courant, “Untitled,” December 20, 1859	12/20/1859
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859	12/20/1859
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Capture of a Slaver with 300 Negroes,” December 20, 1859	12/20/1859