Letters, 1862 Sept. 27 to Nov. 18.
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Yates, Richard, 1815-1873
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American lawyer and politician. From the description of Letter signed, with a line in his autograph : Springfield, Illinois, to President Lincoln, 1863 Feb. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584462 Illinois governor, 1861-1865; member, Illinois House of Representatives, 1842-1846, 1849-1850; U.S. senator, 1865-1871. From the description of Letter : General Head Quarters, Springfield, State of Illinois, to John S. Bradford, 1861 April 17. (Abraham Lincoln Pres...
Swett, Laura.
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Davis, David
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Orme, William Ward, 1832-1866
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A native of Washington, D.C., Orme settled in Bloomington, Illinois where he became a lawyer and friend of Abraham Lincoln. Colonel of the 94th Illinois Infantry organized August 20, 1862, he was promoted to brigadier general March 13, 1863. He developed tuberculosis and resigned because of his health April 20, 1864. He died September 13, 1866. From the description of Correspondence, 1862-1864. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 706817368 Lawyer and ...
Swett, Leonard, 1825-1889
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Leonard Herbert Swett, son of Leonard Swett and Laura Quigg, was born in 1858 in Bloomington, Illinois and traveled extensively in the American West as a surveyor with the United States Geological Survey. He married Rose Maria Skillings (1864-1914) in 1889 and they had at least one child, Laura Rose Swett, born in 1897. From the guide to the Leonard H. Swett papers, 1867-1934, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Leonard Swett (1825-1889), active in Illinois politics ...
