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 [Logan
County Genealogical & Historical Society]
[Logan
Co. Tourism website]
[Mt.
Pulaski Courthouse]
[Abraham
Lincoln in Logan County, 1834-1860]
[Mount Pulaski Township
Historical Society Museum]
[Mount Pulaski Township
Historical Society Website]
 [Elkhart
Historical Society]
[Elkhart Historical Society Website]
   (First Lincoln Namesake City)
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More
Logan County Famous &
interesting folks, places & events
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William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (August
16, 1908 [Lincoln, Il.] – July 31, 2000)
was an American editor, novelist, short
story writer, essayist, children's
author, and memoirist. He served as a
fiction editor at The
New Yorker from
1936 to 1975. An editor devoted to his
writers, Maxwell became a mentor and
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In the mid-1800’s, covering the Illinois 8th Judicial
Circuit required traveling approximately 450
miles by horseback and horse and buggy
through fourteen counties, including Mount
Pulaski, the Logan County Seat from 1848 to
1855. However, it was not until 1849
that Mr. Lincoln re-joined this Judicial
Circuit, having served two years in the
United States House of Representatives: 1847
- 1848.
Mr. Lincoln “allowed” Judge David Davis and
the other lawyers to stay at the Mount
Pulaski House Hotel, while he resided with
friends that he had made, namely the Capps,
Lushbaugh and Beidler families of Mount
Pulaski.
[click on the photos
above for more]
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20 June 1861
Where Does He Stand!
The importance of the crisis has induced our intelligent
correspondent
"Senex," of Mt. Pulaski,
to write a letter on Traitors.
In
times like these we have a right to know who are the
friends of the country, and we therefore insert his
letter. If the "lawyer" spoken of is a loyal citizen,
let him so declare himself; if his is an enemy, wishing
the success of treason, it should be known. We deem it
our duty to insert the letter and to ask him to come out
and define his position, as the time for neutrality is
passed. Do this soon, or the strong hand of Uncle Sam
may close on the seat of your breeches and hold you up
amid the curses and indignation of your countrymen, as
an object of everlasting ridicule and disgrace!
SENEX Mt. Pulaski, June 10th.
Snippet
from 2011 R & B Summer Quarterly
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List of Mt. Pulaski Businesses - 1877
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Snippet
from 2018 R & B Summer Quarterly
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LCGHS Membership Forms
<-- click here
2022
memberships:
Cost
is $20 for single; $25 for two persons at same
address.
Donations are always welcomed.
[Membership includes
free
copy of the LCGHS Quarterly]
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<-- Rte. 66 Lincoln Mill Museum now OPEN |
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Snippet from
2020
R & B
Winter Quarterly
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Snippet from 2006
R & B Winter Quarterly
18 pages of Elkhart Hill - people, places,
events |
This newly processed accession was
donated by the Horchem family of Middletown. Three of
the fifty-nine pages in the scrapbook are presented here
to give you an idea of the contents. We love getting
donations of this type preserving Logan County History.
The year 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the end of WW
II
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Lincoln Daily News
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Lincoln Lakes Lincoln State
School
Lincoln Brass Band
Lincoln Stetson China factory
handmade by women in Middletown for
the Atlanta Wide Awakes
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Brandt Sisters of Atlanta |
Home built in 1837
by John Latham
- then acquired in 1851 by John
D. Gillett, who named it Crohurst |
Paul Beaver,
Professor
Emeritus of Lincoln College,
Author |
William Scully
left behind his
son Thomas & daughter-in-law Violet,
who continued
the legacy of the Scully family
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The LCGHS
offers one room that is dedicated solely
to Abraham Lincoln, containing many
memorabilia
items such as a collection of Lincoln
plates, & some very attractive folk-art
style caricatures of the President,
a library of books pertaining to the
President, as well as
to his life in Illinois & his
relationship to the town of Lincoln.
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Hotel
Lincoln had a cafeteria, banquet
room, and "tap room" |
Dr. G. Dennis Campbell , who established
the
Lincoln College Creekside Environmental
Education Center |
Lincoln College Closed in 2022 -
after 157 years |
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The Rustic Inn -where in 1876
a gang of counterfeiters
plotted
to steal &
ransom Lincoln's body
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Jabez
Capps, tri-founder of
Mt. Pulaski - 1836 |
William Maxwell,
national editor
&
author
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Frank
Capps – inventor
who worked with Thomas Edison |
Mt. Pulaski
House Hotel -
built in 1844
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Edwin
Goodpaster, retired national
editor of the Baltimore Sun
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Jim Hickey,
curator of the
Il. State Historical Library
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Dr. Herbert Ryman,
WWI battlefield hero
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Langston Hughes,
author & poet
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Emmy
&
Tony Award
winning
actor, Hal Holbrook,
Lincoln College,
commencement speaker - 2016
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