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March 19, 2014. This is an extraordinary book, for several reasons. First, William H. Herndon was Abraham Lincoln’s law partner for sixteen years prior to Lincoln becoming President. Second, because Herndon spent several years after Lincoln’s assassination writing to and interviewing scores of people that knew Lincoln during his life and ...
Herndon was attending court, collecting his Lincoln records, leading a fight against Springfield's flourishing houses of prostitution, and heading a committee which planned removal of the county courthouse. There was a new and ailing baby at the Herndon house, who might, it was feared, die any moment.
10 de nov. de 2012 · You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life Author: William H. Herndon Jesse W. Weik Commentator: Horace White Release Date: January 3, 2012 [EBook #38484] Last Updated: November 10, 2012 Language: English Character set ...
William Henry Herndon was born in Greensburg, Kentucky, in 1818. His family moved to Illinois in 1820 and settled in Springfield in 1823. Herndon attended Illinois College in Jacksonville, worked as a clerk in Joshua Fry Speed’s store, was admitted to the bar, and in 1844 became Lincoln’s law partner. As a young man he had become a Whig and ...
Herndon, William H. b. December 25, 1818, in Greensburg, Kentucky; d. March 18, 1891, in Springfield, Illinois. Herndon came to Illinois with his family in 1820, and in 1821, his family moved to Sangamon County. In 1836, Herndon entered Illinois College at Jacksonville, but his father removed him from college after one year because of his son's ...
22 de mar. de 1989 · Lincoln's Herndon: A Biography. Paperback – March 22, 1989. Occasionally a book that begins as a work of scholarship becomes a great and profoundly moving human document. This life of Lincoln's friend, law partner, and biographer is such a book. It has a two-fold focus: on the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" days-the days of Lincoln's courting ...
- David Herbert Donald
William Herndon to Jesse Weik, Feb. 24, 1887, Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, and in Hidden Lincoln, ed. Hertz, 179. Herndon was a good lawyer, hard-working, honest, without political ambition, and intensely loyal. All of these factors mattered to Lincoln, but I suspect trust was foremost in his thinking.
