Manuscripts.

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Manuscripts.

Manuscript, part holograph and part typed, of Stringer's unpublished biography of Abraham Lincoln. Typed transcript of "The Lincoln town: the annals of a prairie county seat named for Abraham Lincoln before he was president."

21 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7711705

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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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...

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...