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Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895) was an American sculptor. Born November 7, 1828 in Wellstown (now Wells), New York, he was one of twelve children of Garrett and Elizabeth Gesner Volk. At sixteen he began work as a marble cutter in his father's shop in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Four years later, in 1848, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he opened a studio and studied drawing and modeling independent of formal instruction. Stephen A. Douglas, a cousin of Volk's wife, became inter...
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Springfield, Illinois attorney who worked in Abraham Lincoln's law office 1856 to 1861, and wrote on subjects relating to Lincoln. From the description of Letter, January 14, 1927. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 268659002 Springfield, Ill. attorney who worked in Lincoln's law office for a time and wrote on subjects relating to Lincoln. From the description of Personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln, the first American, 1916. (Abraha...
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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...