Van Nattan-Renne family papers, 1860-1955.

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Van Nattan-Renne family papers, 1860-1955.

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Correspondence, manuscript, letters, postcards, news clippings, pamphlets, and booklets. Letters between Joseph, Norman and Currency, Joseph's wife, discuss troop activity and day to day life, thoughts about the war, and continuing life on the farm and family news. Letters from various Van Nattan family members to Renne about memories of Lincoln's law partner, Herndon, and Sangamon county history. Typed manuscript of "Lincoln and the Land of the Sangamon" with letters of praise and rejection from various publishers and Paul Angle. Old postcards showing past Springfield. News clippings related to Lincoln, Herdon and Sangamon County history. Pamphlets and booklets related to Lincoln and Springfield, Il.

.42 linear feet 1 box.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 73rd (1861-1865). Company G.

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Van Nattan, Currency (Currency Stanley), 1824-1914.

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Renne, Louis O. (Louis Obed), 1873-1968)

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Lincoln biographer and poet from Springfield, Ill. From the description of The Sangamon, April 1942. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54025443 ...

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...

Van Nattan, Joseph, 1821-1905.

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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...