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Friday, October 1, 1858.+-

Pittsfield, IL.

In afternoon Lincoln is driven in wagon drawn by six black horses from Ross home to town square, where he speaks for two hours. ISLA—Statement of W. C. Dickson, 5 August 1928, Ms.

After meeting, Calvin Jackson, photographer, makes two ambrotypes of him. Frederick H. Meserve, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (New York: privately printed, 1911), 46.

Tradition has it that Lincoln and J. K. Moore start for Naples, and spend night at home of Aaron Tyler. ISLA—Letter of E. S. Hoyt, 3 March 1929.