<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1835-08-03'>Monday, August 3, 1835.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.
         </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes for John Calhoun in preference to A. G. Herndon to succeed E.
            D. Taylor in state senate, and for Job Fletcher instead of Peter Cartwright to succeed
            George Forquer in state senate. Both are elected. His vote helps elect Thomas M. Neale
            county surveyor over Reuben Harrison and Parnell Hamilton.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1835-08-17'>Monday, August 17, 1835.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place> (?)
         </dateline>
         <p> [Matthew S. Marsh, who lives near New Salem, writes: "On the night of the
            17th of August a tornado passed over this place, laid the fences flat, rooted up trees,
            blew down corn and done other damage. The next morn by daylight as I was putting up my
            fence, two great wolves walked along unconcerned within 50 yards of me."<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Trans., 1926, 125.</bibl>]</p>
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<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1835-08-25'>Tuesday, August 25, 1835.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place> (?)
         </dateline>
         <p> [Ann Rutledge, ill six weeks, dies at Rutledge farm seven miles northwest
            of New Salem.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Trans., 1926,
         121.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>