Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

In 1840 Abraham Lincoln, as a Wig elector, campaigned in Southern Illinois for William Henry Harrison Whig Presidential candidate here in Lawrenceville, October 28. He had a dispute with a local physician William G. Anderson, who the previous August had run as a Democrat and lost the election for State Representative. In writing to Lincoln on October 30, Dr. Anderson said that Lincoln was the "aggressor" in the dispute that his words imported insult. Lincoln denied the charge, saying that he regretted the incident.

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