General Records of the Department of the Treasury. 1775 - 2005. Personnel Files of Notable Treasury Employees. 1822 - 1940. Johnson, William. 1822 - 1940. Letter from President Abraham Lincoln to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase
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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873
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Lawyer. From the description of Letter, 1845 March 4, Cincinnati, [Ohio], to Robert F. Paine, Columbus, O[hio]. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13541605 Salmon P. Chase served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864. He oversaw the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (1862) and implemented the introduction of the income tax and the national currency. From the description of Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, Ju...
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...
Johnson, William, d. 1864
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William Johnson (d. Jan. 1864), was a barber and bootblack who worked for President Lincoln for a year before accompanying him to Washington. President Lincoln successfully sought a position for Johnson in the Treasury Department in November 1861, where Johnson was then employed as a laborer and messenger. Johson accompanied President Lincoln to Gettysburg as his presidential valet and probably contracted varioloid about the same time President Lincoln contracted it. Mr. Lincoln recovered, but J...
