Lincoln Memorial Commission papers bulk 1929-1931

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Lincoln Memorial Commission papers bulk 1929-1931

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Roughly 200 papers -- original letters, retained copies, legislative bills, carbons, meeting minutes, telegrams, newspaper clippings, 1 newspaper photo -- concerning the activities of the Lincoln Memorial Commission, created by the Illinois General Assembly under House Joint Resolution No. 37, in April 1929, without funding. Under Logan Hay, chairman, goal quickly became the restoration of the Old State Capitol (Sangamon County Courthouse) to its original design, as a permanent tribute to Lincoln; and support of further restoration of Old (New) Salem. Commission had 21 members, some not active. Principal figures represented in these papers, on the commission or merely writing in, are Hay; Paul Angle, secretary; Judge Henry Horner, Joseph B. Oakleaf (d. 1930), John W. Fling, Jr.; Effie A. Lansden; Mother Mary Barbara Klaholt; Miss Florence Lowden; Homer J. Tice; Henry M. Dunlap; John H. Hauberg; and Mrs. Will L. Lingle. One interesting feature is people from Jonesboro, Illinois, writing to request inclusion in any Lincoln or Lincoln-Douglas marker program. Incomplete list of other names noted: Warren H. Manning, Elbert Waller, Mary Johnstone Armstrong, Lottie Holman O'Neill, J.R. Jackson, Sr., Louis A. Mills, Charles E. Lee, Arthur Roe, Julius Rosenwald, Curtis O. Shake, Robert S. Abbott, N. K. McGill, Charles H. Thompson, T. J. Sullican, Louis H. Hanna, J. Leroy Adair, J. H. Dickerson, Charles E. Lee, Carl E. Robinson, Adelbert H. Roberts, Charles O. Otrich, W. H. Michael, and James C. Sowers.

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Lincoln Memorial Commission (Springfield, Ill.)

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Old State Capitol (Springfield, Ill.)

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Hay, Logan, 1871-1942

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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...