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Records, 1865-1920.

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File I includes primarily correspondence of Ogelsby, Conkling and Hatch but also includes 45 letters by Larkin, one from U.S. Grant, one from John Hay and seven from Robert T. Lincoln. Also many prominent Illinois political people. 28 letters from artists and architects re: the design competition. Minutes of all meetings from 1856-1895, deeds, contracts and treasurer's reports. File II includes correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings and bills. File three includes the custodians reports and register of all visitors to Lincoln's tomb.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Conkling, Clinton L. (Clinton Levering), 1843-1920

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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 ...

Miles, Owen P.

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Hatch, O. M. 1814-1893.

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Mead, Larkin G.

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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...

National Lincoln Monument Association.

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Association formed in Springfield, Ill. on May 11, 1865 in order to plan and carry out the construction of a monument for Abraham Lincoln, with Richard Oglesby as president, Clinton L. Conkling and Ozias M. Hatch as secretary and the Hon. Owen P. Miles in charge of funds collected. A competition for a design was held and the contract for the monument was awarded to Larkin G. Mead. In 1895 the monument and the grounds were given to the state of Illinois. From the description of Record...