People in group quarters in Mingus Mountain in 2000: 1  326 people in nursing homes. 2  65 people in other noninstitutional group quarters. 3  43 people in other nonhousehold living situations.  31 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or 1  wards. 15 people in other group homes.  9 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse.
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Dueled to the Death July 11, 1804. On the morning of July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr raised their dueling pistols and took aim. Hamilton, the former secretary of the treasury, and Vice President Burr were longstanding political rivals and personal enemies.
1 Tallahassee Mayor Francis Eppes, also Thomas Jefferson's grandson, was elected in large part to put down dueling and other lawlessness in the territory.  September 22, 1842: Abraham Lincoln, at the time an Illinois state legislator, accepted a challenge to a duel by Illinois state auditor James Shields. Lincoln apparently had published an inflammatory letter in a Springfield newspaper, the Sangamon Journal, that poked fun at Shields.