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Left Section When word of President Lincoln's assassination came, most of Pontiac's male population had not yet returned from the Civil War. But their wives and children remained, and when word was received that the special train bearing his body …
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Lincoln's good friend Jesse Fell had more to do with shaping early events in Livingston County and Pontiac than any other man. He named the county and, in 1837, was instrumental in having the county seat located here. He name…
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While sitting up late the night of January 27, 1860,in the Pontiac home of Jason Strevell, Abraham Lincolnpredicted he would be nominated for the vice presidency of the young Republican party. In a letter to his son in 1901, Streve…
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Abraham Lincoln spoke inthe little Presbyterian Churchon the northwest corner ofLivingston and Mill streets onJan. 27, 1860, shortly before being nominated for the presidency at the Republican National Convention in Chicago on May…
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In February 1855,Abraham Lincoln was with a group of sixty passengers stranded in Pontiac after a train, bound for Springfield from Chicago, became mired in a snowdrift just this side of where the village of Cayuga was to be platte…
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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, young attorneys who had faced each other earlier in Livingston County's first court case, later the same day debated political issues at this very site. At the Old Settlers' meeti…
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When Abraham Lincoln rode into Pontiac that rainy day, he found few cabins, and those were so scattered and hidden among the clumps of bushes that they were rendered almost invisible. Lincoln stayed overnight in a log cabin buil…
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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were opposing attorneys during Livingston County's first regular term of circuit court, which was held on this site May 18 and 19, 1840, in Henry Weed's log cabin. In the first lawsuit filed …
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Left SectionRiding the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Lincoln pleaded cases in Livingston County's first courthouse located on this site. But these events almost did not come to pass. The town proprietors had promised a courthouse, which two years l…