"Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories - a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller (excerpts) (1901) (14766617515)

Identifier: abelincolnsyar3369mccl (find matches)
Title: "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller (excerpts)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly), 1828-1909
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia : International Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library



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JOSEPH MEDILL, for nearly forty years editor of the Chicago Tribune, one ofthe leaders and founders of the Republican party, sometimes called the Greeiey of theWest, was a personal friend of President Lincoln, and a supporter of the latters policy.However, he did not escape Lincolns anger when, with other Chicago men, he calledupon the President to request that Chicagos quota of men on the last call for troops belowered. Air. Medill afterwards said, That was the first time I was ever whipped. Thegreat editor was born in Canada in 1823. and died in 1898. He was a strong and vigorouswriter, firm in maintaining a stand once taken, and always fought fairly. (369)
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RICHARD YATES, the famous War Governor of Illinois, and a valued friend ofPresident Lincoln, was, like the latter, a native of Kentucky. Governor Yates energeticmethods in organizing and equipping regiments and sending them to the front pleasedLincoln greatly. Governor Yates gave General Grant the first commission he received inthe War, making the Old Commander a colonel. Governor Yates was chosen UnitedStates Senator in 1865, serving until 1871, and died in 1873, at the age of fifty-eight. Hewas also sent to Congress several times. (37o)