Illinois
Lincoln’s years as lawyer in Illinois subject of presentation at History Museum – Muddy River News
QUINCY — Lincoln the Lawyer can be offered at 2 p.m. Sunday, Could 22 on the Historical past Museum, 332 Maine. The Historic Society of Quincy and Adams County is the host.
Sam Wheeler, director of historical past packages on the Illinois Supreme Court docket Historic Preservation Fee in Springfield, will delve into Lincoln’s years as a lawyer in Illinois and the way these years formed his presidency. This system additionally will embrace a phase on early Adams County legal professionals and authorized circumstances by Reg Ankrom.
Wheeler specializes within the historical past of the state, the Civil Warfare and Abraham Lincoln. He has labored within the subject of public historical past for greater than 20 years, together with as state historian of Illinois and director of analysis and collections on the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
Ankrom, a former government director of the Historic Society of Quincy and Adams County, has levels from Illinois School and College of Kansas. He’s a historian and native writer who has printed “Stephen A. Douglas: The Political Apprenticeship” and “Stephen A. Douglas: Western Man.”
A reception can be held after this system the place attendees can meet the presenters.
This program is sponsored by HSQAC member Beth Younger. It’s free and open to the general public.
For questions, contact the Historic Society Workplace at 217-222-1835.
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