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Left PanelA FRIEND FOREVER"I appeal to you because I can to no other with so much confidence," Lincoln said to Doctor William H. Fithian, August 15, 1860. He was asking for Fithian's assistance in a political matter.After both were elected to the …
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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…
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The center of town, during the time of Lincoln's years in Danville, was located in a range from Franklin Street in the West, to Washington Street in the East, bordered by Harrison Street in the North and Water Street to the South…
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Danville was a destination for Abraham Lincoln for nearly twenty years. He first came to the village of a few hundred residents when he was a thirty-two-year-old attorney in 1841.Elizabeth Harmon described the early appearance of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJDE_christian-county-illinois-courthouse_Taylorville-IL.html
The first courthouse of Christian County (originally Dane County) was built in 1840 for $2,350. It was located in the center of Taylorville's Public Square. Court was held on the lower level with County Officers sharing the upstairs floor. Since …