<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-01'>Tuesday, October 1, 1839.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files affidavit of Alexander H. Kellogg, defendant, in
               <name type='case' key='L01137'>Ware v. Kellogg</name>. He writes,
            signs, and files defendants' pleas and answer in <name type='case' key='L01229'>Kimball Dow v. Riley Averill &amp; Alfred Lowell</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-04'>Friday, October 4, 1839.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Report written by Lincoln in <name type='case'>Kellogg v.
               Crain</name> is approved by court.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-10-07'>Monday,
  October 7, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> First Whig state convention assembles.
  Lincoln is not delegate, but is nevertheless one of its leaders. Day is devoted
  to selection of committees and working up enthusiasm for William Henry Harrison
  as party choice in coming presidential election.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 11 October 1839; Illinois State Register, (Springfield) 12
  October 1839; Niles Register, 7 November 1839.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-08'>Tuesday, October 8, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whig convention continues until late afternoon. Lincoln is chosen
            presidential elector with Cyrus Walker, B. S. Morris, Samuel D. Marshall, and E. B.
            Webb. He is appointed to state central committee with Dr. A. G. Henry, R. F. Barrett, E.
            D. Baker, and Joshua F. Speed.<bibl default='NO'>Niles Register, 7
               November 1839.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> "These men . . . ," comments the Democratic paper, "were appointed
            exclusively with reference to their supposed <uLine>stumping</uLine>
               abilities."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 12 October 1839.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-09'>Wednesday, October 9, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Gov. Thomas Carlin calls special session of legislature to convene in
            Springfield December 9, 1839 to devise remedy for state's financial condition.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-10'>Thursday, October 10, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, and evidently mails to Clinton, praecipe and declaration in
               <name type='case' key='L00644'>Scott v. Troxel</name>. He is for
            plaintiff, Daniel Scott.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Charles R. Matheny, president of board of trustees of Springfield, of
            which Lincoln is member, dies. Matheny served as recorder of Sangamon County 1821-1827,
            and clerk of County Commissioners' Court from 1821 until his death.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-14'>Monday, October 14, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends meeting of town board. Trustees resolve: "That in the death
            of C. R. Matheny . . . the town lost an estimable and useful public citizen."<bibl default='NO'>Clerk's Minutes.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [McLean Circuit Court opens second week of two-week session at
            Bloomington.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-18'>Friday, October 18, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln wins <name type='case' key='L00463'>Adkin v.
               Meisenhelder</name> when case is settled by agreement with Adkin paying costs. He
            writes sheriff's endorsement on back of summons in <name type='case' key='L00979'>Samuel Nesbitt &amp; James Nesbitt v. John G. Speer</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-19'>Saturday, October 19, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln asks clerk to issue summons in his first case in U.S. Circuit
               Court&#8212;<name type='case' key='L02301'>Hooper, Martin,
               &amp; Smith v. Haines &amp; Son</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes and signs for Stuart &amp; Lincoln praecipe in <name type='case' key='L03617'>Elijah Iles v. Lorence White</name>, Sangamon
            Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-20'>Sunday, October 20, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln annotates commissioner's report in <name type='case' key='L03111'>Edward Crow &amp; Co. v. Garrett</name>, and writes and signs
            chancery bill to foreclose.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-21'>Monday, October 21, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Livingston Circuit Court meets in one-day session at Pontiac.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-22'>Tuesday, October 22, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs declaration, praecipe, and bond for costs in <name type='case' key='L03586'>Joseph W. Hornsby v. Daniel
               Ragsdale</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes and files his own affidavit as plaintiffs' attorney in <name type='case' key='L03263'>Jacob Forsyth &amp; Co. v. May &amp;
               Truett</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-10-23'>Wednesday, October 23, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln
  writes note, which Joshua Speed signs, certifying that $126 is remitted by mail
  to "Messrs Thos. Bohannan &amp; Co of Louisville Ky."
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A182' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Note Concerning Remittance
  to Thomas Bohannon</xref>, 23 October 1839,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:153.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-24'>Thursday, October 24, 1839.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> DeWitt Circuit Court meets for first time. Judge Treat presides, David B.
            Campbell is prosecuting attorney, and Kersey H. Fell clerk. Lincoln's case <name type='case' key='L00644'>Scott v. Troxel</name> is before court, in
            which he fills out printed summons form. Court adjourns at close of day.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-28'>Monday, October 28, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Macon Circuit Court convenes for four-day term. <name type='case' key='L00463'>Adkin v. Meisenhelder</name>, slander, on which Lincoln
            negotiated agreement October 18, 1839, is formally dismissed. Lincoln writes and files
            pleas in <name type='case' key='L00465'>Nesbitt &amp; Nesbitt v.
               Shultz</name>. He is for plaintiffs.<bibl default='NO'>Record;
               Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-29'>Tuesday, October 29, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L00463'>Adkin v.
               Meisenhelder</name>, slander, changes mind and gives notice that case will be
            appealed. <name type='case' key='L00465'>Samuel G. Nesbitt &amp;
               James L. Nesbitt v. Nicholas Shultz</name>, assumpsit with $500 damages claimed, is
            tried before jury, which retires.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [In Springfield, Stuart receives $180 on judgment won August 6, 1839 for A.
            &amp; G. Kerr &amp; Co.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Files.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-30'>Wednesday, October 30, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln wins <name type='case' key='L00465'>Nesbitt
               &amp; Nesbitt v. Shultz</name> when jury finds defendant owes plaintiffs $219 and
               costs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-10-31'>Thursday, October 31, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is appointed by Judge Thomas to defend David Adkins, indicted for
    larceny. Jury finds defendant not guilty. Lincoln is appointed guardian <ital>ad litem</ital>
    for infant defendants in <name type='case' key='L00444'>Warnick v. Warnick et
    al.</name>, and also in <name type='case' key='L00433'>Shepherd &amp; Manly
     v. Shepherd et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>