Document: Decatur, Ill., 1860 June 1.

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Document: Decatur, Ill., 1860 June 1.

Certification of authenticity for piece of rail split by Hanks and Abraham Lincoln 30 years ago, to be sent to A. A. Burton from G. W. McMillin, attested to by Richard J. Oglesby. Includes note and remarks by A. H. Mundt.

1 item (3 p.); 21 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7348617

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Mundt, A. H.

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Hanks, John, 1802-1889.

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2nd cousin to Abraham Lincoln; Macon County, Illinois, resident. From the description of Document: Decatur, Ill., 1860 June 1. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 33195815 ...

Oglesby, Richard J. (Richard James), 1824-1899

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American soldier and legislator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to G.H. Williams, 1873 Mar. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611451 Richard J. Ogelsby was an officer in the Civil War and seriously wounded, eventually promoted to major general, elected to governor of Illinois in 1864, 1872 and 1884, and ten days after his 1885 term began, resigned after being chosen by the Illinois Republican party for the senate. He had been an orphan and ...

Burton, Allen A.

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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...

McMillin, G. W.

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