Lincoln Boyhood Administrative History

NOTES

1. Jill M. York, Friendly Trees, Hallowed Ground: An Expression of Sentiment and Reason (Omaha: National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office, 1984), 6; and Press Release, June 11, 1931, Park files, Clippings, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, Indiana.

2. Press Release, June 11, 1931, Park files, Clippings. Note that an Evansville Courier—Journal report on September 30, 1934, that the two acres was for a new church was incorrect.

3. Press Release, June 11, 1931.

4. York, 25.

5. John E. Santosuosso, A Survey of Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and Lincoln City (Lincoln City, Indiana: National Park Service, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, 1970), 102.

6. Park files, Lincoln Related Organizations: Indiana Lincoln Union.

7. [Indiana Lincoln Union,] "Indiana Lincoln Reservation" (Typescript, May 4, 1933), Park Files, Grounds, Trail of Twelve Stones.

8. Ibid.; Richard Simons, "The Lincoln Story Told in Stone" (n.p., February 12, 1950) ; and Evansville Courier—Journal September 1, 1933; all in Park Files, Grounds, Trail of Twelve Stones.

9. Joe Wiebe to J. I. Holcomb, April 13, 1933, Hilda Taylor Photographs, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City.

10. P. V. Brown to Richard Lieber, January 31, 1940, Park files, Memorial Visitor Center, Planning in 1930s and 1940s, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City; and Santosuosso, 57, 64.

11. [Paul V. Brown,] The Indiana Lincoln Memorial, Guarding the Grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln and the Site of the Cabin that was Abraham Lincoln's Hoosier Home from his Seventh to his Twenty—First Year (Indianapolis: Indiana Lincoln Union, 1938), 35.

12. Paul V. Brown to Ed Pearson, February 1, 1933; and Indiana Lincoln Union to International Art Foundries, May 23, 1935, Park files, Cabin Site Memorial, Copies of Correspondence on Bronze Log and Hearthstone Memorial, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City.

13. Horace Weber, interview by Bill Bartelt, May 9, 1970, transcript, Park files, Oral History Interviews, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City; and Albert W. Banton to Horace Weber, November 25, 1969, Park files, Cabin Site Memorial, Horace Weber, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City.

14. Miscellaneous correspondence between Ed Pearson and Paul Brown, October 1933—January 1934, Park file, Cabin Site Memorial, Copies of Correspondence on Bronze Log and Hearthstone Memorial.

15. Indiana Lincoln Union to International Art Foundries, May 28, 1935, Park files, Cabin Site Memorial, Copies of Correspondence on Bronze Log and Hearthstone Memorial.

16. Horace Weber to Al Banton, n.d. [circa October 30—November 25, 1969], Park files, Cabin Site Memorial, Horace Weber; and Weber interview.

17. J. I. Holcomb to Gov. Paul McNutt, May 8, 1955, Lieber/ILU Papers.

18. Invoice of Merchandise, April 29, 1935, Park files, Cabin Site Memorial, Copies of Correspondence on Bronze Log and Hearthstone Memorial.

19. "Report of the Building and Plans Committee of the Indiana Lincoln Union" (Indiana Lincoln Union, Indianapolis, n.d. [1936], Typescript), Park files, Lincoln Related Organizations, Indiana Lincoln Union

20. Mention of these visits occurs frequently in correspondence between Brown and Holcomb, sometimes on National Park Service letterhead. See Paul Brown to J. I. Holcomb, February 13, 1937, Lieber/ILU Papers.

21. Paul Brown to Mrs. Richard Coons, March 29, 1937, Lieber/ILU Papers.

22. Richard Lieber to [Philip] Auchampaugh, n.d.; and Auchampaugh to [Louis] Warren, June 8, 1937, Lieber/ILU Papers.

23. See [Brown,] The Indiana Lincoln Memorial.

24. Richard Lieber to Paul Brown, January 15, 1937, Paul V. Brown Manuscripts, Indiana State Library, Indiana Division, Manuscripts Division; and A. E. Demaray to Richard Lieber, August 18, 1936, Brown Manuscripts.

25. Richard Lieber to Paul Brown, January 15, 1937, Brown Manuscripts.

26. Paul Brown to Richard Lieber, January 29, 1937, Brown Manuscripts.

27. Note, Barry Mackintosh to author, June 4, 1985.