Friday, June 20, 1856.Urbana, IL.
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Chicago paper containing proceedings of Philadelphia convention
reaches Urbana. When shown vote for Vice-President, Lincoln jocularly
remarks that there must be some mistake—there is a great man
named Lincoln in Massachusetts, and he must be the one for whom votes
were cast.
Henry C. Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln (Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1892), 80.
[Robert Lincoln brings home $1 pair of slippers from John Williams' store.
Pratt, Personal Finances, 148.]
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