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Birthdays

John Miller Dickey

1806-12-15 - 1878-03-02

William Anderson Handley

1834-12-15 - 1909-06-23

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

1831-12-15 - 1917-02-24

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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 Times, “The Toronto Fugitive Slave Case,” December 15, 1860	12/15/1860
Newspaper	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “What the South Intends to do on the Fourth of March,” December 15, 1860	12/15/1860
Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Georgia Legislation," December 15, 1860	12/15/1860
Newspaper	Bangor (ME) Whig and Courier, “What Will Texas Do?,” December 15, 1860	12/15/1860
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to John A. Gilmer, December 15, 1860	12/15/1860