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Birthdays

Jeremiah W. Asher

1812-10-13 - 1865-07-27

Lafayette Curry Baker

1826-10-13 - 1868-07-03

Henry Haywood Bell

1808-10-13 - 1868-01-11

George William Brown

1812-10-13 - 1890-09-05

James Cook Conkling

1816-10-13 - 1899-03-01

George Purnell Fisher

1817-10-13 - 1899-02-10

Edwin Lycurgus Griffith

1838-10-13 - 1918-01-01

William Lyon

1819-10-13 - 1862-01-01

John Rock

1825-10-13 - 1866-12-03

Benjamin Wood

1820-10-13 - 1900-02-21

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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	New York Herald , "Vindication of the Fugitive Slave Law in Ottawa," October 13, 1860	10/13/1860
Newspaper	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “There's No Secession in That,” October 13, 1860	10/13/1860