Lincoln and Governor Duncan

Abraham Lincoln won his elected office, a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives in 1834. That same year Joseph Duncan of Jacksonville was elected Governor of Illinois. Before you stands the home of Joseph Duncan, which became the official ...

Lincoln's Religion

Abraham Lincoln was often accused by his detractors---and even by some of his friends---of not being a Christian.

Just before becoming President, Lincoln shared the following with his friend Dr. Newton Bateman: "I know there is a God, and that He ...

Lincoln and Grierson

Abraham Lincoln met Benjamin H. Grierson when the two campaigned for the Republican Party. Grierson, a merchant, music teacher, and musician, even wrote a song for Lincoln's presidential campaign in 1860, with the chorus:

"So clear the track--get out of the ...

Lincoln and Jaquess

Abraham Lincoln met the Reverend James F. Jaquess when Lincoln was a lawyer on the Eighth Judicial Circuit

and Jaquess rode the Petersburg Circuit for the Methodist Church. They became better acquainted in Jacksonville when Jaquess was named the first president ...

Lincoln County Veterans Monument

In Sacred Memory of the

Men of Lincoln County

Who Made the Supreme

Sacrifice

World War I

Jesse H. Blackburn

Titus B. Booker

Richard E. Lewis

Edward W. Smalley

Ralph W. Humpreys

Talmadge Bohler

James C. Justice

Thomas Flanigan

World War II

Henry Cawley

John T. Soolsby

Bob Guillebeau

Henry N. Hames

Grady R. Higdon

Leonard Mobley

Clyde A. Peeler

Kenneth ...

Lincoln's Real Estate

"His love of wealth was very weak....he said he had no capacity whatever for speculation and never attempted it."

So said attorney friend Joseph Gillespie who once asked Lincoln how much land he owned and why he had never speculated in ...

Lincoln the Surveyor

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 ...

Lincoln the Leader

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 ...

Stuart and Lincoln Law Office

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 did ...

Lincoln-Era Fire Companies

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 devastating. Springfield had its share of fires. In ...