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HISTORICAL DATA
FOOTNOTES TO SECTION D
1. Charles Carleton Coffin account, May, 1860, in the Boston Journal quoted in Paul Angle, pp. 278-280. ed., The Lincoln Reader, pp. 278-280.
2. Springfield Republican, May 23, 1860, quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 22.
3. New York Evening Post, May 23, 1860, quoted in Scott, "Lincoln's Home in 1860," p. 8.
4. New York Commercial Advertiser, May 25; the New York Evening Post, May 26; and the New York Sun, May 30, and June 9, 1860, quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 23.
5. "An Evening with Lincoln," the New York Semi-Weekly of July 6, 1860, quoted in Lincoln Lore, No. 845, Fort Wayne, Indiana, June 18, 1945.
6. New York Herald, June 26, 1860, quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 25.
7. New York Herald, August 13, 1860, quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, pp. 26-27.
8. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, November 17, 1860 quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, pp. 27-28.
9. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, March 9, 1861, quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 28.
10. Chicago Tribune, May 6, 1865, quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 31.
11. Unidentified newspaper article, February 18, 1867, quoted in Kenneth Scott, "Lincoln's Home in 1860," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, XLVI, month/year no. 1, p. 12.
12. J. S. Bliss to W. H. Herndon, January 29, 1867, Herndon-Weik Collection.
13. Koerner, Memoirs, II, pp. 93-95.
14. Angle, ed., Abraham Lincoln by Some Men Who Knew Him, "Recollections of Judge Franklin Blades," p. 121.
15. Chicago Tribune, May 6, 1865, quoted Bearss, Historic Structure Report.
17. J. S. Bliss to William Herndon, January 29, 1867, Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
23. By editorial correspondent of The Utica Morning Herald, letter dated Springfield, Illinois, June 21, 1860, and reprinted in The New York Semi-Weekly of July 6, 1860, under caption "An Evening with Lincoln."
26. Chicago Tribune, May 6, 1865.
27. New York Evening Post, May 23, 1860, quoted in Kenneth Scott "Lincoln's Home in 1860," The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, XLVI, no. 1 (Spring, 1953), pp. 7-12.
28. Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896, II (Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press, 1909), pp. 93-95.
30. Charles Carleton Coffin, account, May, 1860, in the Boston Journal quoted in Paul Angle, ed., The Lincoln Reader, pp. 278-280.
32. Chicago Tribune, May 6, 1865.
33. Ibid.; See also Paul M. Angle, ed., Abraham Lincoln by Some Men Who Knew Him "Recollections of Judge Franklin Blades," p. 121.
34. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, November 17, 1860, quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, pp. 27-28.
35. Advertisement for Public Sale, Illinois State Journal, January 29, 1861.
36. Melvin bill of sale, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, (JISHS) XLIV, no. 1 (Spring, 1961), pp. 61-63.
37. See Bearss, Historic Structure Report, plates II, III, IV, V, VI.
38. William Waud (? -1878) was a noted illustrator for Leslie's Illustrated Weekly and Harpers Weekly during the Civil War.
39. Rufus Wilson, What Lincoln Read (Washington, D.C., 1932), p. 59.
40. Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 67.
41. Katherine Helm, Mary Wife of Lincoln (New York: Harper Brothers, 1928), p. 134.
42. The original papers, affidavits, etc. are located at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Harrisburg Pennsylvania Copies may be found at the Illinois State Historical Society Library.
43. Stan V. Henkels, Catalogue No 731 The Valuable Collection of Autographs and Historical Papers Collected by The Hon James T Mitchell also The Entire Lincoln Memorial Collection of Chicago Illinois (Philadelphia 1894).
44. Ellen Kirven Donald, Furniture from the Collection of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site (Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, June, 1978), Items 3-8.
45. Melvin bill of sale, JISHS, pp. 61-63.
46. Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of The American Chair 1640-1970 (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972), pp. 390-391. A set of chairs in the style of LIHO 28 (a Cottage style, factory-made, cane-seated chair, which has a Lincoln history) is another alternative for dining room chairs. However, they have not been recommended because the evidence of Lincoln provenance is not as strong as the Oldroyd's documentation for the fancy chair. There is also a possibility that chairs in the style of chair No. 28 were not available at the time the Lincolns lived in Springfield. These chairs were factory made, inexpensive and very popular during the 1870s. The earliest suggested date for this style is 1865. Although dating according to style is not conclusive, until further evidence becomes available, these chairs should not be exhibited in the Lincoln Home.
47. See Bearss, Historic Structure Report, plate VIII.
48. Charles H. Coe, A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection (1896) from the collection of the Lincoln Museum, Ford's Theater, National Historic Site, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.
49. "An Interview with Oldroyd," quoted in file on Lincoln furniture from The Lincoln Home files, The Illinois State Historical Society Library, Springfield, Illinois.
50. Dana J. Blackwell, Chief Engineer, Clock Division, Howard Clock Products, Inc., to Chester V. Hamilton, Acting Superintendent, Lincoln Home, National Historical Society, August 18, 1975, Accession File No. 1, LIHO.
51. E. Howard and Co., Illustrated Catalogue of Clocks (Boston, 1874), nos. 1114.
52. "Chairs Used by the Lincolns," Lincoln Lore (no. 1318), July 12, 1954.
53. William Waud Collection, Division of Prints and Photographs, The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
54. A girandole is an ornamental branched candleholder, usually in sets, with marble bases, used as mantel garniture. See Ethel Doane, Antiques Dictionary (Portland, Maine: 1949); Donald Cowie, Antique Collector's Dictionary (N. Y.: Arco Press, 1963); and Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged (1976).
55. The affidavit was not located at the time of this report although it is mentioned in a letter written by the appraiser of artifacts, Frances S. Ridgely, found in Accession File No. 1.
56. See Bearss, Historic Structure Report, plate II.
57. Mary Lincoln to Julia Ann Sprigg, May 29, 1862, in Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Her ife and Letters (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), pp. 127-128.
58. Coe, Descriptive Catalogue, sofa no. 2.
60. Mary Lincoln to Julia Ann Sprigg May 29, 1862, in Turner, Mary Todd, pp. 127-128.
61. A "couch" at mid-century referred to an elaborate daybed or lounge.
62. Henkels, Catalogue No 731, no. 1592.
63. J. M. Forden affidavit, Lincoln Memorial Collection, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
64. See Accession No. 23, list of shards by Ruthanne Heriot, and Richard Hagen, "Backyard Archeology," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, LIV, no. 4 (Winter, 1951).
65. The origin of this soap dish was not noted on the catalogue card and no information was found in the accession file. However, a letter from Richard Hagen in the Lincoln Home file, Illinois State Historical Society Library, dated July 1, 1953 to a donor of tea leaf china, Mrs. Naomi Koelling, says that the mark on her china, Alfred Meakin, England, with shield, is identical to a mark on china dug up in the Lincoln backyard. According to James Hickey, Richard Hagen was aware that the tea leaf ironstone was not from the 1850s. He accepted it because of the enthusiasm of the organization that was donating it.
66. Geoffry A. Godden, Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks (New York: Crown Publishers, 1964), p. 425.
67. Photo of toothbrush taken in 1951, excavated from backyard, Lincoln Home Files, Illinois State Historical Society Library.
68. See Accession No. 23, list of shards by Ruth anne Heriot, and Richard Hagen, "Backyard Archeology," JISHS.
69. This information was compiled from the accession files at the Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60614.
70. "Lincoln Heirlooms Found in Capital," Chicago Daily News, Tuesday, June 30, 1953.
71. Accession File No. 1921.7, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois.
72. Harry E. Pratt, The Personal Finances of Abraham Lincoln Springfield, Illinois (The Abraham Lincoln Association, 1943), pp. 145-159.
73. Zane, "Lincoln As I Knew Him," JISHS.
74. Godden, Encyclopedia of Pottery, p. 150.
75. Robert Todd Lincoln to Samuel Willard, March 22, 1909, Chicago Historical Society, quoted in Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1953), p. 107.
76. Accession File no. 1927.2, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois.
77. Ibid., Accession no. 1920/683, a. b.
78. Dr. Lattimer to Ms. Mary Ellen McElligott, October 16, 1973, Lincoln Home file, Illinois State Historical Society Library.
79. Interview with James Hickey, Curator of Lincoln Artifacts, Illinois State Historical Society Library, March 12, 1979. According to Mr. Hickey, Margaret Sinninger was a very good friend of Robert Lincoln.
80. Coe, Descriptive Catalogue, No. 9.
81. According to James Hickey, there is a cupboard in the Old State Capitol in Springfield that came from William Herndon. It probably was in the Lincoln-Herndon law office but could have been in the Lincoln home first.
82. According to the Lincoln scholar James Hickey, there is some doubt as to whether or not Maria Vance was a cook in the the Lincoln household (James Hickey Interview, May 12, 1979).
83. Pratt, Personal Finances, pp. 145-159.
84. William E. Baringer, Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology 1809-1865 (Washington, D. C., Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960).
85. Bearss, Historic Structure Report, plates IV, V, and VI.
86. Waud Collection, Library of Congress.
87. Bearss, Historic Structure Report, pp. 39 and 105.
88. Pratt, Personal Finances, p. 92.
89. The information on Bishop Seymour and the Cantrells was compiled by Dr. Wayne Temple, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, Illinois.
90. Mrs. Seymour to Mr. Graham, undated, owned by the Evans Cantrell family, 1020 Bismarck Way, Oxnard, California.
91. Memo by Virginia Stuart Brown, March 5, 1951, Lincoln Home files, Illinois State Historical Society Library.
92. Lincoln Home files, Illinois State Historical Society Library.
93. Mary Clay McClinton, "Robert Wilson, Kentucky Cabinetmaker," Antiques Magazine (May 1973), pp. 945-949.
94. Lincoln Memorial Collection. Original papers located at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
95. Henkels, Catalogue No. 731, no. 1602.
96. Mrs. Elizabeth Ashmead to C. F. Gunther, 1894, Accession File no. XA-96, Chicago Historical Society.
98. Coe, Descriptive Catalogue, Cradle. According to James Hickey, Robert Todd Lincoln did not believe this cradle was the family cradle. According to Robert Lincoln, the cradle was disposed of when the boys were small. Robert's recollections are, however, somewhat effected by his dislike of Oldroyd and Oldroyd's care of the house.
99. Mary Lincoln to Julia Ann Sprigg, May 29, 1862, in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln pp. 127-128.
100. Henkels, Catalogue No. 731, no. 1612.
101. These artifacts are in the Collection of Lincoln College, Lincoln, Illinois, along with other artifacts which have a history of having come from the Lincoln home through the Kuecher family; see Appendix IV.
102. The following information was taken from Pratt, Personal Finances, pp. 145-159.
105. Roy P. Basler, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), II, p. 120.
106. See Miller affidavit by Lafayette Smith, April 10, 1886, Lincoln Memorial Collection Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
107. Pratt, Personal Finances, pp. 145-159.
108. Baringer, Lincoln Day By Day, p. 257.
109. Bearss, Historic Structure Report, plates II and III.
111. Lida Oldroyd, in The National Picket, I, no. 1 (1891), pp. 7-8.
112. "Springfield in 1892: Souvenir Supplement," Illinois State Historical Society Journal (Springfield, 1892) quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 51.
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