Orville H. Browning (1806-1881) One of the mysteries of the Lincoln-Browning friendship is that Browning seemed to have so little real respect for a legal and political associate that he knew for three decades. Browning had much in common with… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Edward D. Baker (1811-1861) Isaac N. Arnold “possessed some of Mr. Lincoln’s best qualities,” wrote Treasury official Lucius E. Chittenden. “His kindness of heart and amiability. No man knew Mr. Lincoln more appreciatively than Mr. Arnold. He had known him from… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Isaac N. Arnold (1815-1884) Isaac N. Arnold “possessed some of Mr. Lincoln’s best qualities,” wrote Treasury official Lucius E. Chittenden. “His kindness of heart and amiability. No man knew Mr. Lincoln more appreciatively than Mr. Arnold. He had known him from… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Richard Yates (1815-1873) “I recollect the first time I ever saw Old Abe, and I have a great mind to tell you, though I don’t know that I ought to,” recalled Richard Yates. He was on a vacation granted by Illinois College so students could… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Gustave P. Koerner (1809-1896) Koerner’s acquaintance with Mary Todd Lincoln predated that with Mr. Lincoln. The refugee from Germany had met Mary Todd when he was a student at Transylvania University in Lexington; he had already… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Norman B. Judd (1815-1878) “A great deal of fault was found at the time by the Whig press with Palmer, Cook and myself about our stand in the election of Trumbull in 1854,” Norman Judd said after President Lincoln’s murder. “But Lincoln…” Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Anson G. Henry (1804-1865) “My acquaintance with Mr. Lincoln began in 1834 in Springfield Ills. and I was in almost daily intercourse with him from that time up to 1852, when I emigrated to Oregon,” wrote Dr. Anson G. Henry two months after President Lincoln’s… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Ozias M. Hatch (1814-1893) “It is next to impossible for me to leave here now. I received your letter and inclosures. My judgment is that we must never sell old friends to buy old enemies,” Mr Lincoln wrote Ozias M. Hatch in March 1858 as the… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

John J. Hardin (1810-1847) Mr. Lincoln’s relationship with attorney John Hardin lasted less than a decade – but it made up in drama what it lacked in length. In 1842, Mr. Lincoln’s friends rallied around him when he was challenged to a duel by… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Joseph Gillespie (1809-1885) Gillespie recalled a meeting in 1850 in Shelbyville where Mr. Lincoln “remarked that something must be done, or slavery would overrun the whole country. He said there were about six hundred thousand…” Abraham Lincoln and Friends >