Autographs of contemporaries of Abraham Lincoln, 1823-1859.

Stuart, John Todd, 1807-1885

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Springfield, Illinois lawyer and politician; early law partner of Abraham Lincoln. From the description of Affidavit, 1874. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 647977056 Springfield, Ill. lawyer who was a friend of Lincoln, loaned him books with which to study the law and then took him into his office to practice. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1848 and the U.S. House in 1862, serving one term in each, then returned to Springfield to practice law. ...

Hanks, Thomas D.

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Yates, Richard, 1815-1873

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American lawyer and politician. From the description of Letter signed, with a line in his autograph : Springfield, Illinois, to President Lincoln, 1863 Feb. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584462 Illinois governor, 1861-1865; member, Illinois House of Representatives, 1842-1846, 1849-1850; U.S. senator, 1865-1871. From the description of Letter : General Head Quarters, Springfield, State of Illinois, to John S. Bradford, 1861 April 17. (Abraham Lincoln Pres...

Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891

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Herndon was a Springfield, Illinois lawyer, and the last law partner of Abraham Lincoln. From the description of Letter, April 5, 1890. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 662739068 Abraham Lincoln's law partner and biographer. From the description of ALS : to Benjamin Franklin Underwood, 1881 Oct. 29. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122617046 Springfield, Ill. lawyer, who had been Abraham Lincoln's law partn...

Latham, Richard J.

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Hutchinson, John W.

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The Isles of Shoals are a summer resort area off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, popular as a summer haven for artists and writers in the mid-late 1800s, among them Childe Hassam and J. Appleton Brown. Celia Thaxter, a painter, poet and writer of children's books had a cottage there; Hassam made numerous paintings of her and her garden. From the description of [Isles of Shoals photograph album - selected photographs], [ca. 1898-1900]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455004 ...

Bunn, Jacob, 1814-1897

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Lockwood, Samuel D. (Samuel Drake), 1789-1874

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Illinois Supreme Court justice, from New York, came to Illinois in 1818 and moved to Jacksonville where he lived until 1854 when he moved to Batavia, Ill. Was a trustee of Illinois College. Married to Mary Stith Nash. His daughter Susan Lockwood married Charles W. Porter of Hudson, Wisconsin. From the description of Family papers, 1817-1918. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 56434070 ...

Berry, Elijah C.

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Todd, John, 1787-1865.

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Kentucky physician who moved to Springfield, Illinois when he was appointed Register of the United States Land Office in that city by President John Quincy Adams. Remained in Springfield the rest of his life. Uncle of Mary Todd Lincoln. From the description of Receipt, Sept. 12, 1835. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55941348 ...

Davis, David, 1815-1886

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Illinois state legislator and jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and U.S. senator from Illinois. From the description of Papers of David Davis, 1861-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070696 Bloomington, Illinois lawyer; member of Illinois House of Representatives (1844-1846); judge 8th judicial circuit (1848-1862); U.S. Supreme Court justice (1862-1877); U.S. Senator (1877-1883). From the description of Receipt for judgment costs, February ...

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...

Lamon, Ward Hill, 1828-1893

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Ward Hill Lamon, a close friend and a biographer of Abraham Lincoln. A native of Virginia, he moved to Illinois in 1847. He became Lincoln's law partner, and in the 1850's worked for his political career. In 1861, Lamon accompanied Lincoln to Washington. In the same year he was appointed Marshal of the District of Columbia. After Lincoln's assassination, Lamon practiced law in a partnership with Jeremiah S. Black. Black's son, Chauncey F. Black ghostwrote Lamon's Life of Abraham Lincoln (1872). ...

Matheny, Noah Webster, 1815-1877.

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Hamilton, William Stephen, 1797-1850

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William Stephen Hamilton (August 4, 1797 – October 9, 1850), a son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, was an American politician and miner who lived much of his life in the U.S. state of Illinois and territorial Wisconsin. Hamilton was born in New York, where he attended the United States Military Academy before he resigned and moved to Illinois in 1817. In Illinois he lived in Springfield and Peoria and eventually migrated to the lead-mining region of southern Wisconsin and ...

Langston, Josiah.

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Dawson, John, 1791-1850.

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Stone, Dan, 1800-1860.

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Illinois lawyer, state legislator from Sangamon County, and circuit court judge, all in the 1830s. From the description of Legal papers, 1834-1837. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 123416142 ...