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Birthdays

Kinsley Scott Bingham

1808-12-16 - 1861-10-05

John Snyder Carlile

1817-12-16 - 1878-10-24

Alfred Creigh

1810-12-16 - 1889-05-02

John Ewen

1808-12-16 - 1877-05-19

Samuel Garland Jr.

1830-12-16 - 1862-09-14

Robert Selden Garnett

1819-12-16 - 1861-07-13

Henry Heth

1825-12-16 - 1899-09-27

Thompson Holmes

1780-12-16 - 1855-06-01

Myer Strouse

1825-12-16 - 1878-02-11

George T. Tyler

1843-12-16 - 1919-01-01

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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, “Not a Bed of Roses,” December 16, 1860

12/16/1860