<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-01'>Saturday, June 1, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Counsel in <name type='case'>Wren v. Wren</name> argue
            motion for new trial, which court denies, victory for Lincoln, petitioner's
               attorney.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Lincoln does not vote in election of constable in Springfield. John M.
            Cabiness, Whig, is elected.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-03'>Monday, June 3, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Menard Circuit Court opens three-day term. Defendant defaults in<name type='case'>Tibbs v. Miller</name>; court orders him to pay $114.65
            debt and damages. Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for plaintiff and Harris for
               defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Court adjourns and Calhoun and Baker debate. Lincoln speaks on tariff in
            evening at Menard County Whig convention.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 13 June 1844.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-04'>Tuesday, June 4, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Miller v. Miller</name> divorce suit is continued. In
            People on complaint of <name type='case'>Jane Davidson v. Bennett</name>,
            jury decides defendant is father of illegitimate child. Logan &amp; Lincoln appear
            for plaintiff in first and defendant in latter case. Lincoln loses <name type='case'>Ritter and Ritter v. Waggoner</name> when court awards plaintiff
               $1,453.49.<name type='case'>Waggoner v. Lukins</name> is opened by
            Baker, Matheny and Lincoln for complainant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> After court, E. D. Baker addresses Whig meeting at Clary's Grove, five
            miles southwest of Petersburg, to which Lincoln probably accompanies him.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 13 June 1844.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-06-05'>Wednesday, June 5, 1844.</date> 
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place> 
         </dateline>
         <p> Logan and Lincoln appear for complainant
  in <name type='case'>Taylor v. Wright</name>. Court decrees that
  complainant recover $722.48 on foreclosure of mortgage and sale of property.
  Judgment of lower court is reversed in <name type='case'>Hornbuckel v. Bone</name>. Harris appears for appellant and
  Lincoln for appellee.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln arrives home in time to pay $10 "on account" at Robert
  Irwin's store.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-06'>Thursday, June 6, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Mason Circuit Court convenes for two-day term at Bath.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-07'>Friday, June 7, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Defendant defaults in <name type='case'>Barrett v.
            Kilbourne</name> in U.S. Circuit Court. Court orders 440 acres of land in Christian
            County sold to pay debt of $500 and damages and costs of $140.58. Logan &amp;
            Lincoln appear for plaintiff. They get judgments for $5,242.10 and $1,051.28 in two
            cases of <name type='case'>Fassett et al. v. Blackwell</name>. Lincoln
            signs firm name to judgment docket attesting full payment of judgment won November 22,
            1843 in <name type='case'>Alexander Brother v. Frink, Walker &amp;
               Co.</name>, $612.50 damages and $22.12 costs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-10'>Monday, June 10, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In U.S. Circuit Court, <name type='case'>Sturtevant v. City
               of Alton</name>, case involving power of corporation, is tried during June term which
            began June 3, 1844. William L. Lincoln, Alton attorney, represents plaintiff and Logan,
            Lincoln, and Bailey defendant. Lincoln and associates lose case when Judge John M.
            McLean, "in a learned and perspicuous and pointed opinion," finds for plaintiff and
            orders Alton to pay amounts due on bonds with interest.<bibl default='NO'>3 McLean 393; Springfield <title>Times</title>, in Peoria Democratic
               Press, 19 June 1844.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln pays $2.56 cash on his account at Obed Lewis' carriage shop.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-12'>Wednesday, June 12, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Public meeting is held, with David J. Baker as chairman. Lincoln explains
            that object is to discuss fairly connection of Whig party with recent Philadelphia
            riots. His four resolutions are adopted. E. D. Baker makes address.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 20 June 1844; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A359' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech and Resolutions
                  Concerning Philadelphia Riots</xref>, 12 June 1844, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:337-38.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln win <name type='case'>Moore v.
               Nelson</name> and Ashworth in U.S. Circuit Court when jury awards plaintiff 160
               acres.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-17'>Monday, June 17, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln has buggy trimmed by Obed Lewis carriage shop, costing $10 for
            material and labor. He may have used buggy for journey to Peoria Whig rally. Illinois
            River is in flood, suggesting that <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mary
            Lincoln</person> recommended another form of transportation than river steamer.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Obed Lewis Account Books; Spirit of the Times</title>, 22
               April 1848, Mill Boy (St. Louis), 22 June 1844; William Sewall, <title>Diary of William Sewall, 1797-1846</title> (Lincoln, IL: Gordon
               &amp; Fledman, 1930), 267.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [<name type='case'>Wren v. Wren</name> comes up for hearing
            in Circuit Court at Peoria on bill, answer, replication, and verdict of jury. Court
            grants divorce and continues application of defendant for alimony.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-18'>Tuesday, June 18, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Sangamon, Scott, Brown, Schuyler, and Mason County delegations to Whig
            Convention leave Beardstown on steamer Lebanon for all night ride to Peoria.<bibl default='NO'>Alton Telegraph, 29 June 1844.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-06-19'>Wednesday, June 19, 1844.</date> 
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Great Whig meeting is held in
  Peoria&#8212;5,000 to 8,000 estimated attendance. Archibald Williams of Quincy
  is chosen president. Speeches are made by Lincoln, Baker, Morrison, Anderson,
  Kilpatrick, Sweet, Bond, and Dr. McDowell and Uriel Wright of St. Louis.
  Lincoln is chairman of committee on resolutions.
  <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%3A360' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Resolutions Adopted by the
  Whig Convention at Peoria, Illinois</xref>, 19 June 1844,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:338-40;
  <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 27 June 1844; Quincy Whig, 26
  June 1844.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-20'>Thursday, June 20, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Steamer Lebanon leaves Peoria on night of 19th and arrives at Beardstown
            following morning. Sangamon delegation probably returns on it.<bibl default='NO'>Quincy Whig, 26 June 1844.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-06-25'>Tuesday, June 25, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys haberdashery: stock $1.25; two-and-a-half yards tweed cloth
            for Biddle, tailor, and $1.75 for coat trimming. He also buys $8 worth of
               merchandise.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>