Papers, 1911-1954, n.d.

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Papers, 1911-1954, n.d.

Letters to Boos contain reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln as well as William T. Sherman, Horace Greeley, and Civil War military experiences.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

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Woodrow Wilson (b. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia-d.February 3, 1924, Washington, D.C.), was the twenty-eight President of the United States, 1913-1921; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-1913; and president of Princeton University, 1902-1910. Biographical Note 1856, Dec. 28 Born, Staunton, Va. 1870 ...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 82nd. Company F.

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Culver, F. E., fl. 1912.

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Wirthel, Charles W., 1844-1935.

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Gridley, Eleanor, 1846-1944

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Boos, John E., 1879-1974.

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New York author and collector of Abraham Lincoln and Civil War material. Especially collected the accounts of obscure people who saw or interacted with Lincoln. From the description of Papers, 1911-1954, n.d. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 145746016 ...

United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 121st. Company D.

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Rogers, R. H., fl. 1911.

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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 102nd. Company L.

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Stoddard, Horace H., 1838-1930.

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Bailhache, Preston H., 1835-1919.

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Pratt, Harry E. (Harry Edward), 1901-1956

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Illinois State Historian, Lincoln scholar and author, this scrapbook reflects Pratt's interest in Illinois past. From the description of Scrapbook, 1882-1946. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 49700227 Cambridge, Illinois author, Lincoln scholar, history professor and director of the Illinois State Historical Library. Pratt graduated from the University of Illinois in 1923 and after teaching for awhile, returned to complete his doctorate in history ...

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...

Cadwell, Henry W., 1843-fl. 1925.

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Lowden, Frank O. (Frank Orren), 1861-1943

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Lawyer, politician, landowner. A.B., University of Iowa, 1885. LL. D., Union College of Law, 1887. Congressman from Illinois, 1906-1911. Governor of Illinois, 1916-1921. Advocate for scientific farming and farmers' interests. From the description of Papers, 1885-1943 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 55818931 U. S. Congressman from Illinois (1906-1911) and Illinois governor (1917-1921). From the description of Letter, January 9, 19...

Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930

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Author, lecturer, and Lincoln biographer of Greencastle, Indiana. Collaborated with William Henry Herndon on Herndon's Lincoln (1889). Author of The Real Lincoln (1922). From the description of Correspondence, 1887-1921, 1948. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 59284104 Author, lecturer and Lincoln biographer of Greencastle, Indiana. Collaborated with William Henry Herndon on Herndon's Lincoln (1889). Author of The Real Lincoln (1922). Fr...

Magoffin, Albert E., 1845-1932.

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Drummond, Robert Loudon, 1842-1919

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Robert Loudon Drummond, a lawyer of Auburn, N.Y., was a member of the 111th New York Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Drummond was imprisoned at Salisbury, N.C. in 1864-1865. From the guide to the Robert Loudon Drummond Recollections, ., circa 1914, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Griffith, William Patton, 1843-fl. 1928.

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Evans, George L., fl. 1911.

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United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 89th. Company H.

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