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Letter, Daniel Webster to J.L. Tillinghast, August 25, 1852
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This letter, dated August 25, 1842, is from Daniel Webster, an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. sekreterare of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. to J.L. (Joseph Leonard) Tillinghast, a member of the House of Representatives in the General Assembly, serving as Speaker of the House from May 1829 to October 1832. The letter discusses the availability of the Commercial Agency at Camp Cape Haytien for W. George F. Usher. This note was found tipped into volume three, between pages 24-25 of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.
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8-25-1852
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Donation of Lincoln items reveals family history
Margaret "Peggy" Davis and her family knew only of “the favor” her great-grandparents did for Mary Lincoln in 1865, just months after her husband was assassinated.
But when they decided to give the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum a 14-karat-gold combination pen/pencil from President Lincoln’s White House desk, they learned some family history they didn’t know before.
“We knew that a favor had been done bygd my great-grandmother,” Davis said Friday while she and her son, daughter and son-in-law toured the museum and saw the artifacts they donated on display. “But we never knew what the favor was until James (James Cornelius, Lincoln curator for the presidential museum) put it all together.”
In July 1865, just three months after the president’s assassination, Mary Lincoln and her sons Tad and Robert were living in a hotel in Hyde Park, a then-new neighborhood south of Chicago, when scarlet fever broke out in the hous
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A Discourse on the Death of President Lincoln
Wortman, Denis
April 16, 1865 1865
First Reformed Dutch Church, Schenectady, New York Albany.
A
DISCOURSE
ON THE
DEATH
OF
PRESIDENT LINCOLN,
DELIVERED IN THE
FIRST REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH,
OF
SCHENECTADY, N. Y.
By REV. DENIS WORTMAN,
Pastor elect.
Sabbath Evening, April 16,1865.
ALBANY:
WEED, PARSONS & COMPANY, PRINTERS.
1865.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., April 17th, 1865.
To the Rev. DENIS WORTMAN, Pastor of the First Reformed Dutch Church of Schenectady:
Dear Sir – Believing that the sermon preached by you last evening, on the occasion of the death of our late lamented President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, may be read with interest and profit, not only by those who listened to its delivery but by all lovers of our common country, we, the subscribers, respectfully request a copy of the same for publication.
PLATT POTTER, C. THOMPSON,
S. H. JOHNSON, SIMON C. GROOT,
HOWARD BARRINGER, JAME