Collection of recollections about Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1973 and undated.

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Collection of recollections about Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1973 and undated.

Collection of recollections, remembrances and memoirs about Abraham Lincoln. There are many articles contemporary to Lincoln and many items simply remembering Lincoln in the courthouse or during his many Central Illinois speeches.

.25 cubic ft.

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Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) served as the 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897. Previously, he served as a representative from Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. After his subsequent appointment as assistant postmaster general of the United States during Grover Cleveland's first administration (1885–89), he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with Southern Democrats. This earned him the enmity of the Republican-contro...

Frink, Dwight E., 1874-1919

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Compiler of collection. Attended Illinois Wesleyan University; Bloomington city treasurer for two years; assistant supervisor, Bloomington Township, Ill.; chief clerk, Bloomington Election Commission, and secretary, McLean County Historical Society. From the description of Dwight E. Frink collection, 1905-1907. (Mclean County Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 776202273 ...

Minier, George W.

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Prince, Ezra M. (Ezra Morton), 1831-1908

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Lawyer and local historian, of McLean County, Ill. From the description of Ezra M. Prince papers, 1898-1908. (Mclean County Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 222296291 ...

McLean County Historical Society (McLean County, Ill.)

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Bloomington High School (Bloomington, Ill.)

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Burnham, John H. (John Howard), 1834-1917

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Civil War officer; founder of McLean County Historical Society; archaeologist; and historian; of Bloomington, Ill. He served in the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. From the description of John H. Burnham papers, 1880-1911. (Mclean County Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 243614537 ...

Flagg, William F., 1808-

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Fifer, Joseph Wilson, 1840-1938

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Civil War soldier, lawyer, state legislator, nineteenth governor of Illinois (1889-1893), and member of Interstate Commerce Commission (1899-1906). From the description of Papers, 1889-1891, n.d. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 124509798 Nineteenth governor of Illinois, 1889-1893, who had served in the 33rd Illinois Infantry during the Civil War, as Bloomington's city attorney, state's attorney and Illinois state senator. Was appointed to the Inte...

Duis, Erich

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Wilson, Adoniram Judson, approximately 1830-

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Birch, Jonathan.

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Ewing, James S. (James Stevenson), 1835-1918

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Wilson, Edward M., 1866-1903

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Rural teacher and journalist with the Weekly Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill., Chicago Record, and Denver Republican. From the description of Edward M. Wilson diaries, 1881-1903. (Mclean County Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 230756263 ...

Fell, Kersey H., 1815-

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Bloomington, Illinois, lawyer and businessman; brother to Jesse W. Fell. From the description of Documents, 1839-1847. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30366199 From the description of Letters: Bloomington, [Ill.], to J[esse] C. Green, 1886 July 22 and 31. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30366230 ...

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...

Davis, George P. (George Perrin), approximately 1842-

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Ayers, J. B.

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Stewart, J. G.

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