Identifier: abrahamlincolnslstulinc (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln's law partners and students
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Stuart, John Todd, 1807-1885 Lawyers
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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for Washington, D. C, where1 he assumed the burdening duties of! the presidency cf the United States.In 1856, Lincoln had added to his1 home another half story, thus chang- ing it to the two story building which; we now have. Super efforts haveI been made to maintain it to its ori-I ginal furnishing, both inside and out and people from all over the worldhave visited it as a shrine. Courthouse Once State House Near the old court house, pacingup and down—here is a spot whichis constantly under our eyes, and yethow many of us stop to think that itwas once cur state house and thepride of Springfield? Do you knowthat its stones were quarried at nearbySugar Creek, and that though it wasstarted in 1837, it was not completeduntil 1850? A matter of 13 years ormore is not to be regarded lightly. Thepeople of Springfield must surely havewanted a structure of which theycould be proud to have waited so long. ^s^ *^^k % R - 1 w i 1- V John T. Stuart(In the Possession of Logan Hay) *\T f C
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