Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.

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Title
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.

Pages

Page 121

To Joseph Duncan1Jump to section

To Springfield 25 July 1838.

His Excellency Joseph Duncan

Having learned that a vacancy has occured in the board of Commissioners of public works---by the resignation of J. W. Stephenson We take much pleasure in recommending to your favorable consideration for the vacancy thus created our fellow citizen John Dickson2Jump to section of Ogle county whom we consider in every way fully qualified to discharge the duties of the office

Jesse B. Thomas Jr C R Matheny G. Elkin

J. Wright, Comr. A.G. Herndon A. Lincoln

Pub. Works. N. W. Edwards Gershom Jayne

J. F. Speed Th C Browne

Simeon Francis William Butler A. G. Henry3Jump to section

Annotation

[1]   DS, IHi.

[2]   John Dixon.

[3]   Of the co-signers with Lincoln, not previously identified, Jesse B. Thomas, Jr., was circuit judge; Joel Wright was a recently elected commissioner of public works; Charles R. Matheny was clerk of county commissioners' court; Joshua F. Speed was a merchant and partner in James Bell & Co.; William Butler was clerk of the circuit court; Garrett Elkin was sheriff; Gershom Jayne was a Springfield physician; Thomas C. Browne was Illinois Supreme Court judge.

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