Letter : Washington, D.C., to Abraham Lincoln, n.p., 1862 June 18.

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Letter : Washington, D.C., to Abraham Lincoln, n.p., 1862 June 18.

Autograph letter signed. Recommends the Reverend Charles Spear of Boston as hospital chaplain.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7674560

University of Chicago Library

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Spear, Charles C.

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Spear was born in Quincy, Mass. about 1835 and moved to Dorchester, Mass. in the 1860's. There he was superintendent of streets and keeper of the Dorchester Workhouse. From the description of Business records, 1856-1872 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 229894310 ...

William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana (University of Chicago)

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

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...

Barton, William Eleazar, 1861-1930

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Clergyman. From the description of William Eleazar Barton address, 1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453232 Minister First Congregational Church, Oak Park, Illinois, 1899-1924; author; Abraham Lincoln biographer. From the description of Papers, 1920s. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 77514474 Congregational clergyman, author. From the guide to the William E. Barton letter to Mr. Graff, 1900, (The New York Publi...