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Birthdays

Richard Snowden Andrews

1830-10-29 - 1903-01-05

William Creighton Jr.

1778-10-29 - 1851-10-08

Daniel Decatur Emmett

1815-10-29 - 1904-06-28

Thomas Langrell Harris

1816-10-29 - 1858-11-24

Joseph Horace Lewis

1824-10-29 - 1904-07-06

William Wallace Merrick

1837-10-29 - 1861-01-01

Theodore Runyon

1822-10-29 - 1896-01-27

Stewart Taylor

1836-10-29 - 1859-10-17

Robert Ewing Younger

1853-10-29 - 1889-09-16

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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	Chicago (IL) Tribune, "The Union at the South," October 29, 1860	10/29/1860
Letter	Edward Mattson to Abraham Lincoln, October 29, 1860	10/29/1860