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Birthdays

Adelbert Ames

1835-10-31 - 1933-04-12

Daniel Butterfield

1831-10-31 - 1901-07-17

Raleigh Edward Colston

1825-10-31 - 1896-07-29

Joseph Roswell Hawley

1826-10-31 - 1905-03-17

Alexander Williams Randall

1800-10-31 - 1872-07-26

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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	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “The Final Blow to Liberty,” October 31, 1861	10/31/1861
Executive record	Henry Bellows to William Seward, Report on Condition of Confederate prisoners in New York City, October 31, 1861	10/31/1861
Military record	Winfield Scott to Simon Cameron, Request for Retirement, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1861	10/31/1861