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Birthdays

Goode Bryan

1811-08-31 - 1885-08-16

James Adams Ekin

1819-08-31 - 1891-03-27

Joseph Smith Fowler

1820-08-31 - 1902-04-01

Galusha Aaron Grow

1823-08-31 - 1907-03-31

Homer Augustus Nelson

1829-08-31 - 1891-04-25

John Thompson Nixon

1820-08-31 - 1889-09-28

Pierre Soulé

1801-08-31 - 1870-03-26

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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

Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “The Cry of Peace,” August 31, 1861

08/31/1861