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Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

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Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

ELLIS MANSION
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Abner Turner Ellis, a Borough President, Probate Judge, and State Senator, promoted the charter of Ohio & Miss. R.R. (later a part of B&O)and was its first president. His stately home was built by John Moore about 1838. Abraham Lincoln visited this home during Henry Clay's campaign in 1844.


Erected by Vincennes Business and Professional Women's Club; Historical and Antiquarian Society.

Busseron St. & 2nd St., Vincennes, Knox County Indiana

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