Papers, 1898-1942.

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Papers, 1898-1942.

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Includes 15 letters from Stringer and 139 to Stringer. 70 letters written Oct. 1911-April 10, 1912 discuss Woodrow Wilson's unsuccessful efforts to win the presidential primary in Illinois and include letters to and from William F. McCombs and Bryon R. Newton, Woodrow Wilson Headquarters, New York; William C. Niblack and F.E. Sullivan, Woodrow Wilson Headquarters, Chicago, Ill.; and Irving Schulman of Sullivan, Ill, who was responsible for the down state distribution of campaign literature. Also letters from Logan Hay, Henry Horner, Robert Lansing, James Hamilton Lewis, Frank T. O'Hair, Mrs. John M. Palmer, John F. Snyder, Roger C. Sullivan, Joseph P. Tumulty and others mostly discuss Illinois politics. Three letters by M.L. Houser discuss Lincoln and Stringer's biography of him. Don F. Dickson discussed, Nov. 25, 1927, archaeological excavation at Dickson Mounds. A.R. Kelly, an anthropologist at the U. of Illinois refers to archaeological sites in Logan County in a letter dated June 7, 1930.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

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Woodrow Wilson (b. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia-d.February 3, 1924, Washington, D.C.), was the twenty-eight President of the United States, 1913-1921; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-1913; and president of Princeton University, 1902-1910. Biographical Note 1856, Dec. 28 Born, Staunton, Va. 1870 ...

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...

Stringer, Lawrence Beaumont, 1866-1942

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Resident of Lincoln, Illinois who served in the Illinois General Assembly, 1890-1892, 1900-1904, as chief justice of the Illinois Court of Claims, 1905-1913, U.S. Representative, 1913-1915, and judge of Logan County, Ill., 1918-1942. He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1908 and 1914. Also wrote on Abraham Lincoln and the history of Logan County. From the description of Papers, 1898-1942. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768302 From the d...