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Birthdays

Samuel Aaron

1800-10-19 - 1865-04-11

Benjamin Hickman Bunn

1844-10-19 - 1907-09-25

Cassius Marcellus Clay

1810-10-19 - 1903-07-22

R. Wickliffe Cooper

1831-10-19 - 1867-06-08

Samuel McGowan

1819-10-19 - 1897-08-09

William Weston Patton

1821-10-19 - 1889-12-31

Rufus Saxton

1824-10-19 - 1908-02-23

James Falconer Wilson

1828-10-19 - 1895-04-22

William Henry Zimmerman

1838-10-19 - 1921-05-10

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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	John Hays to Charles Francis Himes, October 19, 1860	10/19/1860
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to Grace Bedell, October 19, 1860	10/19/1860
Newspaper	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Wide Awakes at Washington,” October 19, 1860	10/19/1860