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April 10, 1900: Arnold Beckman, groundbreaking chemist, inventor and philanthropist, is born in the Livingston County village of Cullom

April 9, 1865: Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant

April 8, 1832: Soldiers set out from St. Louis up the Mississippi River to confront Black Hawk and his British Band

April 7, 2015: Bob Butler wins election to his 14th term as mayor of Marion

April 6, 1862: Mary Safford, nicknamed the “Cairo angel” for her volunteer work nursing Union soldiers in Cairo, Illinois, during the Civil War, accompanies General Ulysses S. Grant’s army during the Battle of Shiloh to comfort and minister to the wounded

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