261 Notes Abbreviations ALPLC Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. ALPLM Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois. CW Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy P. Basler. 9 vols. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953–55. DDFP David Davis Family Papers. Manuscripts Division, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois. HI Wilson, Douglas L., and Rodney O. Davis, eds. Herndon’s Informant: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. HL Herndon, William H., and Jesse W. Weik. Herndon’s Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life . . . the History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln.. Ed. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. LDD Miers, Earl Schenk, ed. Lincoln Day by Day, a Chronology, 1809–1865. 3 vols. Washington, DC: Lincoln’s Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960. LPAL Benner, Martha L., and Cullom Davis, eds. The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln Complete Documentary Edition. DVD-ROM. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009, http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org. PAL Stowell, Daniel W. The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Legal Documents and Cases. 4 vols. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2008. UIL Illinois History and Lincoln Collection. University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois. Foreword 1. Fraker, “Real Lincoln Highway,” 76–97. 2. [Scott], “Lincoln on the Stump.” 262 Notes to Pages xiv–3 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid. 6. Hiram W. Beckwith, “Lincoln: Personal Recollections of Him, His Contemporaries and Law Practice in Eastern Illinois,” Chicago Tribune, December 29, 1895. 7. Zall, Abe Lincoln Laughing, 118–19; Whitney, Life on the Circuit, 179. Treat told this to Henry Clay Whitney. Lincoln also told Whitney that John S. Hacker of Union County, whom he had known in the legislature, was the source of almost all his funny stories. Ibid. 8. Scott, “Lincoln on the Stump.” 9. Leonard Swett, speech, “The Life of Lincoln,” Chicago Times, October 23, 1887. Swett delivered this speech at the dedication of the St. Gaudens statue of Lincoln in Chicago. 10. G. W. Harris, “My Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” 15. 11. William H. Herndon to Isaac Newton Arnold, Springfield, Illinois, October 24, 1883, Herndon Collection, Chicago History Museum. 12. David Davis, interview with Herndon, September 20, 1866, in Wilson and Davis, Herndon’s Informants, 350. 13. Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, 2:297. 14. David Davis, interview with Herndon, September 20, 1866, in Wilson and Davis, Herndon’s Informants, 349. 15. Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen, 189. 16. Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Lincoln, 257. 17. David Davis, interview with Herndon, 349. 18. William H. Herndon to Jesse W. Weik, Springfield, Illinois, February 24, 1887, Herndon-Weik Collection. 19. Leonard Swett, lecture delivered in Chicago, February 20, 1876, Chicago Times, February 21, 1876. Introduction 1. Duis, Good Old Times, 287. This anecdote is part of a biographical sketch of David Davis in Duis. It is not attributed nor is the incident dated. The scene described would have been in the spring when the rivers were swollen; it would have been between 1848 and 1853, the period of Davis’s tenure as judge while Decatur was in the circuit. The description of Davis’s weight elsewhere in the book may raise a question as to the mobility demonstrated in this incident. Pictures of Davis when he first took the bench show him to lack the great girth he carried later in his life. Davis’s stamina and physical ability during this period are noted in a letter to his wife where he reports helping hay for three or four hours a day for two or three days. David Davis to Sarah Davis, July 23, 1853, DDFP. 2. Reference, Court Structure, Circuit Courts, LPAL. 3. Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, 5 (original emphasis). 4. Ibid., 9, 10. [54.221.110.87] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 00:31 GMT) 263 Notes to Pages 9–18 1. A New Country 1. Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, 17. 2. “Maps of Circuit, 1845–47,” and “Maps of the Circuit, 1847–53,” LPAL; Moses, Illinois Historical, 2:1137, 1156. 3. Howard, Illinois, 142; J. White, Origin and Evolution of Counties, 35 (map). 4. A. T. Rice, Reminiscences, 308. 5. Davis, “Lincoln and Macon County,” 64, 65. 6. Ibid., 73. 7. Kyle, Abraham Lincoln in Decatur, 18–20. 8. Ibid., 21, 22. 9. Ibid., 22; Dean T. Austin, about William Warnick, letter to Guy...