Letters, 1914, 1915.
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Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline), 1842-1930
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Infantryman in the Twentieth Ohio Infantry during the American Civil War, later the custodian of Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois, and renow Lincoln collector. From the description of Collection, f 1880-1882. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 40121882 Oldroyd was an author and publisher of Abraham Lincoln books and a collector of Lincoln artifacts. From the description of Papers, 1919. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 268661...
McElroy, John, 1846-1929
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Editor of the National Tribune in Washington, D.C. who had served in the 16th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War and wrote several books on that war. Osborn H. Oldroyd, from Ohio, was a collector of Lincoln artifacts and memorabilia who came to Springfield, Illinois in 1884 and lived in the Lincoln home, making it a museum, until the state bought it in 1893. He then moved his museum to Washington, D.C. to the house where Lincoln died. He sold his collection to the government in 1925 for $50,...
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...
