Lincoln Boyhood Administrative History

NOTES

1. Charles E. Shedd, Jr., "Historic Sites Survey, Lincoln State Park and Nancy Hanks Lincoln State Memorial, Spencer County, Indiana." (U. S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Philadelphia, 1959, Typescript), 18-25, passim.

2. John E. Santosuosso, A Survey of Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and Lincoln City (Lincoln City: National Park Service, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, 1970), 22; Bess V. Ehrmann, The Missing Chapter in the Life of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: Walter M. Hill, Publisher, 1938), 82-83; and Edward McM. Larrabee, "Preliminary Excavations at the Cabin Site, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, Indiana" (U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1967, Typescript), 24. In a letter from Lincoln State Park Superintendent Joe Wiebe to Paul V. Brown dated December 31, 1931, Wiebe reported the "tin tipes" [sic] were in the possession of the "Elliott sisters" of Dale, Indiana. See Larrabee, p. 72.

3. Santosuosso, 86.

4. Ibid., 83.

5. Ibid., 86.

6. Ibid., 87.

7. Ibid., 116; Charlotte N. Baird, "The Making of a Memorial," Rockport-Spencer County Sesquicentennial (n.p., n.d.); and Park files, Cemetery History, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, Indiana.

8. Park files, Cemetery History.

9. Santosuosso, 88.

10. Joseph D. Armstrong, "The Lincolns in Spencer County (n.p., n.d.), 60-61; Baird, "Making of a Memorial"; and Richard Lieber/Indiana Lincoln Union Papers, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division, Indianapolis (hereafter cited as Lieber/ILU Papers). Note that these sources contradict the 1870 date contained in the Indiana Lincoln Union report, The Indiana Lincoln Memorial (Indianapolis: Indiana Lincoln Union, 1935), which was quoted in Jill York, Friendly Trees, Hallowed Ground: An Expression of Sentiment and Reason (Omaha: National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office, 1984), 2.

11. P. E. Studebaker to Gov. James E. Mount, June 11, 1897, Lieber/ILU Papers; Notes on meeting with Gov. J. Frank Hanley, n.d., Lieber/ILU Papers; Santosuosso, 94-95; York, 2; and Clem Studebaker to Gov. James E. Mount, June 10, 1897, Lieber/ILU Papers.

12. Santosuosso, 95.

13. P. E. Studebaker to Gov. James E. Mount, June 11, 1897, Lieber/ILU Papers; Notes on Hanley meeting, Lieber/ILU Papers; and York, 2.

14. York, 2-3; Santosuosso, 100; Constitution of the Indiana Lincoln Memorial Association, Park files, Park Related Organizations, Indiana Lincoln Memorial Association, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City; Chronological Outline of Significant Events and Dates Relating to the Development of the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial, Presently Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Park files, Material on the Creation of Lincoln Boyhood, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City; Notes on Hanley meeting; and Fairbanks Manuscripts, Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

15. Notes on Hanley meeting; Indianapolis News, September 8, 1925; York, 3; and Santosuosso, 101.

16. "Dedication of the Monument in Memory of Nancy Hanks Lincoln" (Indiana Lincoln Union, Indianapolis, 1902, Program); Evansville Courier-Journal, September 28, 1902; and Lincoln Lore, June 12, 1933, Park files, Cemetery History.

17. Press Release, June 11, 1931, Park files, Clippings, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City.

18. Notes on Hanley Meeting; Santosuosso, 101; and York, 3.

19. Rockport Journal, February 12, 1909; and Santosuosso, 101-102.

20. Notes on John J. Brown's recollections of identifying the cabin site, circa 1930, Park files, Cabin Site, 1917 Spencer County Monument, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City; Notes on Hanley meeting; Park files, Clippings; Santosuosso, 49-50; and York, 3-4.

21. Springfield [Illinois] Journal, February 13, 1921, Park files, Clippings.

22. Robert Allen Frederick, "Colonel Richard Lieber, Conservationist and Park Builder: The Indiana Years." (Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 1960), 248.

23. Ibid., 275-277.

24. Ibid., 248.

25. Boonville Standard, October 15, 1970, Park files, Lincoln Related Organizations: Boonville Press Club.

26. Notes on Hanley meeting.

27. Ibid.

28. Indianapolis News, September 8, 1925, Richard Lieber Papers, Lilly Library, Manuscripts Department, Indiana University, Bloomington.

29. Frederick, 251-252; Press Release, June 11, 1931, Park files, Clippings; and York, 4.

30. Press Release, June 11, 1931; Indianapolis News, May 9, 1941, Clippings files, Indiana Biography, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division, Indianapolis.

31. C. G. Sauer to Frederick Law Olmsted [Jr.,], December 9, 1926, Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.

32. Ibid.

33. York, 8. Much of this section is excerpted from the author's earlier study, Friendly Trees, Hallowed Ground. Because the author is the same, quotations were not used even where the wording was the same as that used in the earlier study.

34. York, 4-5, 8-9.

35. Handbill, September 9, 1927, Indiana Lincoln Union Papers, Indiana State Archives, Indianapolis.

36. Ibid., and New York Times, May 8, 1927, Park files, Lincoln Related Organizations, Indiana Lincoln Union.

37. P. V. Brown to Bayard M. Hedrick, April 6, 1927; and G. E. Lundy to Paul V. Brown, April 13, 1927, Lieber Lincoln Memorial, Indiana State Archives, Indianapolis.

38. See Indiana Lincoln Union Papers, Indiana State Archives.

39. P. V. Brown to W. O. Feudner, Editor, Rushville [Indiana] Republican, n.d., Indiana Lincoln Union Papers.

40. Press Release, June 11, 1931, Park files, Clippings.

41. Indiana Lincoln Union to Jonesville Times, April 5, 1928, Indiana Lincoln Union Papers.

42. Ibid., and Park files, Indiana Lincoln Union.

43. Indiana Lincoln Union, "Lincoln Memorials" (Indiana Lincoln Union, Indianapolis, 1927, Pamphlet).

44. Indiana Lincoln Union Papers.

45. Ibid.

46. Evansville Courier and Journal, October 16, 1927, Park files, Indiana Lincoln Union.

47. Thomas Taggart to Dr. B. F. Zimmerman, March 1, 1928, Indiana Lincoln Union Papers.

48. J. W. Action to Indiana Lincoln Union, May 1930, Park files, Indiana Lincoln Union.

49. Park files, Indiana Lincoln Union.

50. John E. Iglehart to Paul V. Brown, October 3, 1927, State Parks-State Memorials Files, Indiana State Archives.

51. Paul V. Brown to John E. Iglehart, October 4, 1927, State Parks-State Memorials files.

52. J. I. Holcomb to Ken R. Cougill, February 9, 1956, Park files, Park Proposals: Proposal to Build a Memorial Drinking Fountain, 1956.