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Birthdays

George Gordon Meade

1815-12-31 - 1872-11-06

Jonathan Kenyon Peck

1824-12-31 - 1899-12-31

Noah Pinkney

1846-12-31 - 1923-08-06

Theodore Medad Pomeroy

1824-12-31 - 1905-03-23

Charles Shiels Wainwright

1826-12-31 - 1907-09-13

Alfred Newton Weir

1840-12-31 - 1892-05-29

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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	Boston (MA) Herald, "Disunion," December 31, 1860	12/31/1860
Newspaper	New York Times, “Flight of a Great Criminal,” December 31, 1860	12/31/1860
Letter	Thomas Cadwallerder to Abraham Lincoln, December 31, 1860	12/31/1860
Newspaper	Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Fort Sumter,” December 31, 1860	12/31/1860