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Birthdays

Samuel Riley Bird

1828-09-07 - 1910-01-01

Howell Cobb

1815-09-07 - 1868-10-09

William Hemsley Emory

1811-09-07 - 1887-12-01

Thomas Andrews Hendricks

1819-09-07 - 1885-11-25

James Kennedy Moorhead

1806-09-07 - 1884-03-06

Henry Bascom Ridgaway

1830-09-07 - 1895-03-30

Albert Ritchie

1834-09-07 - 1903-09-14

Peter Godwin Van Winkle

1808-09-07 - 1872-04-15

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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

Letter	Letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to D. F. Boyd, September 7, 1860	09/07/1860
Newspaper	New York Herald, “Massachusetts Thoroughly Abolitionized,” September 7, 1860	09/07/1860