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Title: Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Agriculture Farmers Agricultural laborers Agricultural machinery
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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he sheets to a newspaperman, evidently for printing. One page of this hand written manu-script was in the possession of the late Professor Julius E. Olsonof the University of Wisconsin in 1920 when it was reproduced infacsimile with his article Lincoln in Wisconsin in the WisconsinMagazine of History, September 1920. Both the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Chicago Press and Tribuneprinted the speech in its entirety on the following day, October 1.It was reprinted in the Wisconsin Farmer for November and inthe transactions of the State Agricultural Society for 1858 - 59(published in 1860). Even though it was not a political speechit seems strange that it was very seldom mentioned by earlierLincoln biographers. After the address Lincoln displayed much interest in the variousexhibitions as he was escorted about the grounds. This was the last day of the Fair, and the awarding of premiumsfollowed immediately after the address. Among the many awardsmade to Milwaukeeans we find the following: 11
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This Lincoln marker between W. Wells st. and W. Kilbourn av., near N. Thirteenthst. was erected in 1928 by the Old Settlers Club. James H. Rogers, 1st Premium on Stallion Wisconsin Medoc $30 John Ogden, 1st Premium, Buggy, Two Seat 7 John Ogden, 1st Premium, Buggy, One Seat 5 L. Lincoln, Best Specimen of Penmanship Diploma I. A. Lapham, Climatological Map of Wisconsin Diploma John Marr, Best Wood and Copper Seals and Engravings. . Diploma These were names prominent in the early history of Milwaukee.Rogers, was an early landowner, Ogden the proprietor of theCarriage Repository on Spring Street, L. Lincoln a businessschool executive, Lapham scientist, antiquarian, archaeologist andfather of the United States weather bureau and John Marrsculptor, artist and father of Karl Marr the famous painter. THAT EVENING LINCOLN made an impromptu political speechin the lobby of the Newhall House. A. M. Thomson in A PoliticalHistory of Wisconsin provides his own eye witness account ofthe scene, as th

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