| Thursday, November 17, 1859.Springfield, IL and En route to
Mt. Vernon, IL. | From an account at the Springfield Marine
& Fire Insurance Company, Lincoln writes a check payable to "Wife" in the
amount of $10. Check of Abraham Lincoln to Mary Lincoln, 17 November
1859, Riggs Bank Archive, PNC Financial Services Group, Washington, DC. Lincoln departs Springfield by train headed for the Illinois Supreme
Court term in Mt. Vernon to participate in the case of
People v. Illinois Central RR. He travels
from Ashley, Illinois, on the route of the Illinois Central Railroad, the final
sixteen miles to Mt. Vernon by stagecoach. Thirteen-year-old James Watson much
later recalls riding on Lincoln's lap in the crowded stagecoach.
Abraham Lincoln to Michael G. Dale, 8 November 1859,
CW, 3:493-494; Mt. Vernon Register News (IL), 5
August 1930, 3:3. [ Mrs.
Lincoln buys cloth and socks at Smith's. Pratt,
Personal Finances, 160.] |