A. Lincoln, Prairie LawyerAuthor makes use of the Herndon-Weik Papers, first opened to the public in 1942, and of the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection, which was not accessible until 1947, in the biography of Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer. |
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Page 144
... side that he had already been retained by Matson , followed by his vigorous defense of the latter , affords a particularly apposite ex- ample of that paralysis of doubt in making decisions which has so frequently been imputed to him ...
... side that he had already been retained by Matson , followed by his vigorous defense of the latter , affords a particularly apposite ex- ample of that paralysis of doubt in making decisions which has so frequently been imputed to him ...
Page 313
... side or the other , though , for no discernible reason , it would seem that his first preference was the side of the counties . On Septem- ber 12 , 1853 , in a letter to Thompson R. Webber , Clerk of the Champaign Court , Lincoln ...
... side or the other , though , for no discernible reason , it would seem that his first preference was the side of the counties . On Septem- ber 12 , 1853 , in a letter to Thompson R. Webber , Clerk of the Champaign Court , Lincoln ...
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... side - wheeler of her draft on the Mississippi , a sleek craft which kept men and boys wide - eyed . With a deck two hundred and thirty feet long , side wheels thirty feet in diameter , and a capacity of seven hundred tons , the steamer ...
... side - wheeler of her draft on the Mississippi , a sleek craft which kept men and boys wide - eyed . With a deck two hundred and thirty feet long , side wheels thirty feet in diameter , and a capacity of seven hundred tons , the steamer ...
Contents
Early Contacts | 3 |
The Shape of Things to Come | 21 |
Stuart Lincoln | 35 |
Copyright | |
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