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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13VE_lincolns-confidante_Quincy-IL.html
Quincy's Eliza Caldwell Browning and Abraham Lincoln first met in 1836. She was a new bride, and he had just received his law license. When Eliza discovered Lincoln's "great merits," the two established an easy rapport. Their nearly thirty-year fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13VD_john-wood-mansion_Quincy-IL.html
The home of Governor John WoodGovernor State of Illinois 1860-1861Founder of Quincy, IllinoisDedicated by Dorothy Quincy Chapter NSDAR
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Abraham Lincoln and John Wood shared similar political views, Both were members of the Whig Party and were strongly allied against slavery. Lincoln and Wood worked to establish the Republican Party, and each campaigned for the other's cause during…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM139C_tri-state-business-center_Quincy-IL.html
Quincy's brewers and brick makers, contractors and coopers, foundry and factory workers, and diverse other tradesmen made this Mississippi River community an important center of commerce in Lincoln's day. Quincy's businessmen, whose enterprises at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM139A_steamboats-and-railroads_Quincy-IL.html
Lincoln traveled to Quincy by stagecoach in 1854 after crossing the Illinois River at Naples. Lincoln's first documented visit was to support the Congressional candidacy of Archibald Williams and to attack the Kansas- Nebraska Act and its author, …