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 >

Ninian W. Edwards (1809-1889) With Lincoln, Ninian Edwards had constituted one of Whig “Long Nine” from Sangamon County who served in State Legislature in mid 1830s. Mr. Lincoln met Edwards when he first went to Vandalia for the… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Jesse K. Dubois (1811-1876) Jesse Dubois met Mr. Lincoln when they served together in the State Legislature in the 1830s and early 1840s. Mr. Lincoln helped persuade Dubois, then the state’s youngest legislator, to vote for… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Mark W. Delahay (1817-1879) In 1860, Mark W. Delahay sought Mr. Lincoln’s support to attend the Chicago Republican convention as a Lincoln delegate from Kansas. Mr. Lincoln replied: “I can not enter the ring on the money basis–first, because, in the main, it is…” Abraham Lincoln and Friends >

Thurlow Weed (1797-1882) Thurlow Weed was not an easy friend for the President to keep. He was often out of sorts with Mr. Lincoln on patronage, policy, political or personal reasons – and took umbrage even when Mr. Lincoln… Abraham Lincoln and Friends >