Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Person
Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:
A. Peabody letter
Collection — Box: 65
Identifier: MS-SC1154
Scope and Contents
Discusses the death of their Aunt Sarah Peabody and a problem with her estate provoked by her brother. Also speaks of Lincoln and states he will make a good president. Note written at the end of the letter from O.L. Peabody to lawyers Higbee and Hays re: the statements from his brother about Aunt Sarah's estate.
Dates:
Created: November 12, 1860
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A. Peabody letter
Adams-Snyder Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-BC5
Abstract
Family from Springfield, Illinois, consisting of lawyers and farmers. James Adams (1783-1843) was Springfield's first attorney. His son, Lucian B. (1816-1882) was also an attorney and a justice of the peace. Lucian married Margery A. Reed (1824-1890) and had four children: Harriet L., Enola A., Eldora J., and James L. (1848-1931). James L. was a fruit farmer and truck gardener. He had two children from his first wife, Florence Roe; and two children from his second wife, Laura Snyder...
Dates:
Created: 1813-1989; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1982
Found in:
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Adams-Snyder Family Papers
Albert G. Wolford letter
Collection — Box: 99
Identifier: MS-SC1680-A
Scope and Contents
Letter, May 7, 1861, to his brother in Louisville, Kentucky, commenting on military activities in Alton and Cairo, Illinois and on his familiarity with Abraham Lincoln: " I have known him for twenty three years, and he means what he says."
Dates:
Created: May 7, 1861
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Albert G. Wolford letter
Albert Lyman Talbert papers
Collection — Box: 95
Identifier: MS-SC1628
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning students and teachers from Wayne County, Illinois attending the Lincoln Day celebration in Fairfield, Illinois on October 6, 1939; includes program. Letter of 1943 concerns school project to raise funds for purchase of Gettysburg Address manuscript.
Dates:
Created: 1939 - 1943
Found in:
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Albert Lyman Talbert papers
Andrew O'Connor letter
Collection — Box: 63
Identifier: MS-SC1115
Scope and Contents
Letter to Jessie Palmer Weber at the Illinois State Historical Society in answer to her question re: the length of Abraham Lincoln's arms. The letter was sent from Paris, France where he was living at the time.
Dates:
Created: June 19, 1925
Found in:
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Andrew O'Connor letter
Appomattox Land and Improvement Company records
Collection
Identifier: MS-SC4016
Abstract
The Appomattox Land and Improvement Company was an organization found in New York in 1891 by a group of New York businessmen, with the goal of purchasing and holding real estate, particularly the McLean “Surrender” House at Appomattox, Virginia. Under Myron E. Dunlap, the group purchased several historic structures with the intent of dismantling them and moving them to Chicago for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition or to Washington DC for permanent display. The house from Appomattox was...
Dates:
1891 - 1924
Bartlett Woods letter
Collection — Box: 100
Identifier: MS-SC1685
Scope and Contents
Letter, written at Ross, Indiana, to Schuyler Colfax, then a Congressman, regarding the Civil War and British sentiments in relation to the conflict. Also references the CSS Alabama and its connection to the British Government. Includes a typed transcript of the letter.
Dates:
Created: May 17, 1863
Found in:
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Bartlett Woods letter
Benjamin F. Angel letter
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-SC32
Scope and Contents
Consists of one letter by U.S. Minister to Sweden and Norway, Benjamin F. Angel to Joseph A. Wright, written September 19, 1860, from Stockholm. Angel speculates on the outcome of the United States presidential election, with reference to Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas and possible dissolution of the Union. At the time Wright was U.S. Minister Plenipotentiary to Prussia.
Dates:
Created: 1860-09-19
Found in:
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Benjamin F. Angel letter
Benjamin Platt Thomas manuscript
Collection — Box: 89
Identifier: MS-SC1529
Scope and Contents
Typed manuscript of "Portrait for posterity, Lincoln and his biographers." Includes hand written corrections and citations. Citations were not included in the published work.
Dates:
Created: 1947
Benjamin T. Smith journal
Collection — Box: 80
Identifier: MS-SC1412
Scope and Contents
Detailed, well written and fascinating account of his experience in the war. Gives very detailed personal accounts of his experiences at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, siege of Atlanta, Nashville and the Battle of Franklin. Also creates a picture of day to day life in the army, the food, the marching, skirmishing, the wounded and dead, the medical treatment, the officers and other men in the regiment, nonmilitary people they meet, spies, plantations...
Dates:
Created: 1861 - 1865
Found in:
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Benjamin T. Smith journal