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Birthdays

Luke Pryor Blackburn

1816-06-16 - 1887-09-14

Marcus Lafayette Gordon

1837-06-16 - 1874-04-28

David Edgar Herold

1842-06-16 - 1865-06-07

Eli Long

1837-06-16 - 1903-01-05

Wesley Merritt

1834-06-16 - 1910-12-03

Robert Franklin Thompson

1831-06-16 - 1883-01-01

Israel Washburn Jr.

1813-06-16 - 1883-05-12

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Events

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
Legal/Political	Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania	01/15/1861 to 01/15/1867

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Documents

Newspaper	New York Times, “The Barbarians at Harper’s Ferry,” June 16, 1861	06/16/1861
Letter	Thaddeus S. C. Lowe to Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1861	06/16/1861