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[1] ALS, IHi. Abram Bale was a Baptist preacher residing at Petersburg, Illinois. Lincoln misspells his first name.
[2] Addison or Horace Hickox, brothers who operated a mill to which Bale probably took his wheat. Virgil Hickox was a prominent Springfield merchant.