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Birthdays

Alexander Thomas Augusta

1825-03-08 - 1890-12-21

Grafton Marsh Bosley

1825-03-08 - 1901-01-25

Matthew Calbraith Butler

1836-03-08 - 1909-04-14

Simon Cameron

1799-03-08 - 1889-06-26

William Emory Deal

1840-03-08 - 1924-09-01

John Henry Grabill

1839-03-08 - 1922-02-28

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

1841-03-08 - 1935-03-06

David Smith Terry

1823-03-08 - 1889-08-14

Frank Wilkeson

1848-03-08 - 1913-04-22

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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, “Premonitions of a Storm,” March 8, 1861	03/08/1861
Letter	Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck to Abraham Lincoln, March 8, 1861	03/08/1861