Author: Illinois State Historical Library
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical Library
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library
Author: Illinois State Historical Library
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Publication of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical Library
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library
Author: Illinois State Historical Library
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical Society
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year ...
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Index to the Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society and Other Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library
Author: Illinois State Historical Library
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Occasional Publications (Illinois State Historical Society)
Author: Illinois State Historical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Lincoln's Rail-splitter
Author: Mark A. Plummer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Like Lincoln, Oglesby was born in Kentucky and spent most of his youth in central Illinois, apprenticing as a lawyer in Springfield and standing for election to the Illinois legislature Congress, and U.S. Senate. Oglesby participated in the battles of Cerro Gordo and Vera Cruz during the Mexican-American War and made a small fortune in the gold rush of 1849. A superlative speaker, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in a campaign that featured the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, then was elected to the Illinois senate as Lincoln was being elected president.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Like Lincoln, Oglesby was born in Kentucky and spent most of his youth in central Illinois, apprenticing as a lawyer in Springfield and standing for election to the Illinois legislature Congress, and U.S. Senate. Oglesby participated in the battles of Cerro Gordo and Vera Cruz during the Mexican-American War and made a small fortune in the gold rush of 1849. A superlative speaker, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in a campaign that featured the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, then was elected to the Illinois senate as Lincoln was being elected president.