Illinois: Looking for Lincoln
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Cultural differences made it hard for citizens to agree on animal control policies. Well into the 1850's hogs freely roamed the streets, contesting the walkways with pedestrians, rooting up sidewalk planks, and creating smelly "how wallows" in front of stor…
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Lincoln brought his buggy to Obed Lewis for servicing at his shop on the north side of Monroe Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets.When Lincoln first arrived in Springfield riding a borrowed horse he wondered at the "great deal of flourishing about in c…
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Lyceums were community associations that sponsored lectures, debates, and discussions.Eastern Protestant missionaries and educators brought the concept to frontier Illinois. Promoters hoped their Lyceums would disseminate knowledge and encourage civic respo…
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Lincoln's Springfield was vulnerable to fire, Crowded wood-frame buildings, open flames in stoves, fireplaces, candles, and primitive gas lighting ineffective alarms, muddy streets, and inadequate water supplies—-all combined to make fires potentially…
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William Florville was Lincoln's barber for twenty-four years.Florville, or de Fleurville ("Billy the Barber" to his white customers), was born in Haiti of French ancestry. He came to America at age fifteen and was a barber's apprentice in Baltimore.He moved…
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Before he moved to Springfield Abraham Lincoln came to the law office of John Todd Stuart to barrow law books.Henry E. Dummer—-Stuart;s partner at the time—-recalled that the "uncouth looking" Lincoln said little and seemed timid. Yet when he di…
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During four years as President, Abraham Lincoln spent much of his time among the troops. They were important because they were the people who would get the job done. He frequented the War Department's telegraph office to stay abreast of critical events. He …
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Abraham Lincoln laid out the original sixty blocks of Petersburg, Illinois between November 1835 and February 1836. In 1832, Peter Lukins and George Warburton had laid out a few lots for a new town. Lukins and Warburton played a card game, "Old Sledge," to …
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Abraham Lincoln surveyed the town of Petersburg certifying his plat on February 17,1836, five days after his 27th birthday.At the time he was still living in New Salem. He later surveyed several additions to the Petersburg plat. Though self-taught, Lincoln …
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After moving to Springfield, Abraham Lincoln would visit the Petersburg area and stay overnight at the Menard House.When Lincoln was on the Judicial Circuit, he traveled from court to court, often sleeping at the local hotel or tavern. With his original sto…