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"Why if that one is named Democrat, I will name this one Whig," Lincoln said to John Ewing the proprietor. Such was Lincoln's affection for the family of John Ewing, who ran the hotel in the 1840's. John had nicknamed one of his sons "Democrat." L…
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(Plaque 1)Major's HallErected 1852 byWilliam Trabue MajorRazed 1959(Plaque 2)Illinois Republican Partyborn in Major's HallI have supposed myself since the organization of the Republican Party at Bloomington, in May 1856, bound as a party man by th…
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Horace Greeley's New York Tribune reported on the Bloomington convention for its national readership: "It was most emphatically a convention of the people, where all classes, opinions and shades of belief were represented—-but all inspired w…
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"I look upon that enactment not as a 'law,' but as 'violence' from the beginning. It was conceived in violence, passed in violence, is maintained in violence, and is being executed in violence. I say it was 'conceived' in violence, because the des…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12YF_miller-davis-buildings_Bloomington-IL.html
"...If they believe...Vandeventer pointed the gun at Swartz and advanced upon him, merely to intimidate Swartz....so that he could get to kill the dog, and with no intention of him, or otherwise hurting him with the gun, that was no assault within…
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A National Register of Historic Places SiteHere, in the 1840s attorneys of the old Eighth Judicial Circuit would gather. In the upper rooms Abraham Lincoln, David Davis, Asahel Gridley and others forged their ideals which fifteen years later were …
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"My line of defense is going to be that your tongue is no slanderer...that the people generally know you to be, impulsive and say things that you do not mean, and they do not consider what you say as slander," was Lincoln's defense of Gridley in a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11MQ_florence-fifer-bohrer_Bloomington-IL.html
The first woman elected to the Illinois Senate, Florence Fifer Bohrer served two terms from 1925 to 1933. She chaired the Senate committee to visit charitable institutions, led efforts to revamp Illinois' child welfare laws, and sponsored legislat…
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This was the home of Joseph W. Fifer, Republican Governor of Illinois, 1889-1893. Fifer was born in Virginia in 1840 and came to Illinois in 1857. During the Civil War he served in the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. He graduated from Illinois We…
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This was the home of Adlai E. Stevenson I, Vice-President of the United States, 1893-1897. Stevenson was born in Kentucky in 1835 and came to Bloomington in 1852. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington and Centre College in Kentuc…