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Birthdays

Lewis Golding Arnold

1817-01-15 - 1871-09-02

Benjamin Franklin Ball

1839-01-15 - 1923-01-26

John Cabell Breckinridge

1821-01-15 - 1875-05-17

Alexander Mosby Clayton

1801-01-15 - 1889-09-30

Abigail Kelley Foster

1811-01-15 - 1887-01-14

Lafayette McLaws

1821-01-15 - 1897-07-24

Hiester Henry Muhlenburg

1812-01-15 - 1885-05-05

Ozora Pierson Stearns

1831-01-15 - 1896-06-02

John Dodson Stiles

1822-01-15 - 1896-10-29

Cole Younger

1844-01-15 - 1916-03-20

James Younger

1848-01-15 - 1902-10-19

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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, “Ex-Secretary Floyd on the Crisis,” January 15, 1861	01/15/1861
Newspaper	New York Herald, “Coercion Symptoms in the West and North-West,” January 15, 1861	01/15/1861
Letter	Alexander K. McClure to Abraham Lincoln, January 15, 1861	01/15/1861