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JUN 18193G
Clay V. Vaden, Field Triter,
rrojectCC-1700.3"
QueLlado,
=mins 02 LIDCOLD TOLD
77:11/eboroY rovan'o INather Vr.,c "reoldent'c rcxtner
In the pioturecctue little villace of iallcborot lifer rcr-ico,
there lived until a few ye=o co
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.71:1-oboth rernCon 11111,
Caudate:: of tillia i. Earndon, -.1.artner.
the mei a brother vcre itIontified 'with that locality cl.nco the
ormation o rierry, County, 1:30:70 t3t,..n forty year.° aro.
then in a reninicoent mod ran 1,71:/4:1 her oarlicot recollect:1o=
cave a vivid, roalictic or. the "trictnric :a- orficeo of
Lincoln and re:x(10ns for ciao l'anfr-ba:Oe 11'17:..:IC, Cone tl.cro often az
a chile. It vac a laze bac:: roan on the c °coal floor of a brio::
buildinc ojnecite the olurthouce .in Illinoic, the
larn:c 'oohed out onto cliee roofc and
Uotally, there ve.le hnlf a Cozen men 7)recent crio'-inc, with the,.
feet on 'Ulm table. At one ciCo ctood an ole. cofa rith co= of ito
br6%en c7rrir-c --)rotrudinc thru the blac:: borcehair covtr; there
rero boolmacco to hold the ruol: uoce boohc and an old fac1-4onee
coorotnry. raueono Lao revar:kee,"Me furniture uncn't mn71, but
the :-)1 vac well erfaill->ed teith brain."
It vac thcro the "Croat rzalnci,)ctor" coneolvee, an( nourichod the
ideac 1-Thich bore fruit ,-,hen he beccno lrecirlont and it ran there
k
Eorndon, the enthusiastic, radical Abolitionist, planned the spcoch
co and formlated the arcuments rhich cauced him to be recognised
ac the root useful adherent to the eau= in the treat.
The xrtnership between my father and I. Lincoln, accorang to
rrs. flll, was never fornally dissoIVe. then the "'recident left
Oprincflold for tho Vito Ebuse he told her father:nes:ye the old
sien, Dilly, and then I comc back Cron Vashincton„ co nn rith
the law businces.e
Eerndon workod rith Lincoln when be was a member of the firm of
Lincoln and Lon and vihon Lincoln dicsolve0 his •partacrshi-o vith
Loan be invited young Eorndon to become Lie nrirtner. 717.c trn rcn,
also, had roared together In the early thirtic:7 in re -7 Calcm.
Etrndon ras an ardent abolitionist and folIcricel closely tho actions
of ho Dcztner. After Lincoln's death horns onP r)f the for-, net to
')ousetos a cnnplete ebronological file of 7dnerqn's cnocchen r'ith
the Cates and places of their dcliveries. Be vorhtC diligently cne,
traveled mtensively to collect ratcrial on his f r partner and
in tho carly eichticc, collaborating with 'Jesse teik, mote
',Etrndon's Lincoln,0 and in 1002 prepared a revised edition.
rm. Ballto brothrz, neverly Herndon, of Felvin, Arizona, also
renenbers Lincoln. He rau 11) years' old uhen be heard Lincoln de..
liter his farewell adereso on the day ho loft fir the 7hite rouse.
(Courco of inf=altion: an interview uith the late .rre. nal)