Jack Parkinson of Freeport has the original hand-written document for his ... Several readers added information, Ron Lawfer of Stockton, Illinois State Representative from 1992 to 2002, being one of them. He also sent other historical information we ...

Abraham Lincoln, a country lawyer who had served a two-year stint in Congress ... took place on the afternoon of August 27, 1858, at Freeport, Illinois. It was the great event of the day, and attracted an immense concourse of people from all parts of ...