Papers, 1835-1868.

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Papers, 1835-1868.

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Correspondence, mostly to Gregg, discussing news of family and friends; weather conditions; Mormon-related upheavals in Hancock County, Illinois; the Civil War; newspaper publication; and poetry. Includes four poems by Frances A. Shaw, who also wrote five of the letters.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Sharp, Thomas C. (Thomas Coke), 1818-1894

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Gregg, Thomas, 1808-1892

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Gregg was a Hancock County, Illinois newspaper publisher, historian, and horticulturalist. From the description of Papers, 1835-1868. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 549514863 Pioneer Hancock County, Illinois, newspaper publisher, historian and horticulturalist. From the description of Papers, 1836-1892. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 32363840 ...

King, Henry, fl. 1859.

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Lawton, John, 1780-1842.

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Gregg, Sarah.

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Prentis, Noble L. (Noble Lovely), 1839-1900

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Noble Lovely Prentis was born April 8, 1839, in a log cabin three miles from Mount Sterling, Brown County, Illinois. His father and mother died at Warsaw, Illinois in the cholera epidemic of 1849, leaving him an orphan at the age of 10. He enlisted with the 16th Illinois militia during the Civil War and thereafter published and edited newspapers in Missouri and Illinois before moving to Kansas in 1869. In Kansas, he worked on such newspapers as the Topeka Record, Topeka Commonwealth, Atchison Ch...

Shaw, Frances Anna

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