Title: Receipt for furniture from Lincoln's home Description: A receipt for some furniture and other household goods from president-elect Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois, that was purchased by the local druggist, S.H. Melvin; Lincoln also placed an advertisement in the Illinois State Journal in late January, 1861, offering for sale other furniture from the Lincoln home; most of it was purchased by Lucian Tilton, head of the Great Western Railroad, who later rented the Lincoln house until 1869, before moving to Chicago and taking the Lincoln furniture with him; it was all lost in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871; the conflagration burned from October 8, 1871, to October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about four square miles of the city. Study Application Notes: Abraham Lincoln ("Honest Abe," "The Rail Splitter," "The Great Emancipator"), born February 25, 1809 in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky, died April 15, 1865 in Washington, D.C.; sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); Lincoln was self-taught, moving at age twenty-two to Illinois in 1831, working on a flatboat, then later as a rail-splitter and store clerk, until moving to Springfield, Illinois to work as a lawyer in 1837; he served four terms as a state representative from Sangamon County, Illinois as a Whig; he married Mary Todd (Mary Anne Todd; December 13, 1818-July 16, 1882) in 1842, a union that produced four sons: Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843-July 26, 1926); Edward "Eddie" Baker Lincoln (March 10, 1846-February 1, 1850); William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln (December 21, 1850-February 20, 1862); and Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (April 4, 1853-July 16, 1871); Background Information: Lincoln was narrowly elected the sixteenth President of the U.S. in 1860 as a Republican. He worked hard to preserve the Union, though eleven southern States had seceded and a Civil War ensued; his Emancipation Proclamation, announced on September 22, 1862 and put into effect on January 1, 1863, essentially freed the slaves and, with his Gettysburg Address, are some of the greatest documents ever produced by an American President; Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. shot by American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865) and died the next day; Lincoln is buried in the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois; several films profile Lincoln, the most notable being Abraham Lincoln (1930), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), and Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: Abraham Lincoln Collection, abolitionists, American Civil War (1861-1865), anti-slavery, assassinations, attorney, debates, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Illinois, Great Chicago Fire, Great Western Railroad, Illinois Legislators, Kentucky, lawyers, politicians, presidential debates, presidents of the U.S., rail-splitters, slavery, Springfield, Illinois, U.S. Congress, U.S. Presidents, U.S. Senate, Whig political party. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2700 x 1412 (3.81 MPixels) (1.91) Print Size: 22.9 x 12.0 cm; 9.0 x 4.7 inches File Size: 10.93 MB (11,463,888 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530119 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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