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Abraham Lincoln - Stephen A. Douglas IL267 |
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 Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz
COMMEMORATING
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, who practiced at the Pike County Bar in early days and who spoke in this park in the Senatorial Campaign of 1858; John Hay, author of Pike County Ballads, diplomatist and Secretary of State 1898 - 1905, who received his academic education here; and John G. Nicolay, private secretary to President Lincoln, who edited the Whig Free Press published here prior to the Civil War.
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for complete data see HISTORICAL
VOLUME IN PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Pike County Historical Society.
Washington St., courthouse lawn, Pittsfield, Pike County Illinois
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