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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-07-01'>Thursday, July 1, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to
               <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln leaves home to attend River and Harbor Convention at Chicago.<bibl default='NO'>See History of Congress, Biographical and Political,
               comprising a History of Internal Improvements, II, 294-344; Chicago History, V,
               161-63.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-07-05'>Monday,
  July 5, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> River and Harbor Convention meets. Lincoln, Dr. Merryman, and
  Fred Doyle represent Sangamon County. At 10 o'clock, preceded by bands, fire
  companies and militia, delegates march to pavilion. Addresses are delivered and
  temporary organization effected. Permanent organization and more speeches
  occupy afternoon.<bibl default='NO'>Fergus Historical Series,
  No. 18.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln's new clothes do not produce
  intended effect. E. B. Washburne of Galena recalled: "One afternoon, several of
  us sat on the sidewalk under the balcony of the Sherman House, and among the
  number was the accomplished scholar and unrivaled orator, Lisle Smith. He
  suddenly interrupted the conversation by exclaiming, `There is Lincoln on the
  other side of the street. Just look at "Old Abe".' And from that time we all
  called him `Old Abe'. No one who saw him can forget his personal appearance at
  that time. Tall, angular and awkward, he had on a short-waisted, thin
  swallow-tail coat, a short vest of the same material, thin pantaloons, scarcely
  coming to his ankles, a straw hat and a pair of brogans with woolen socks."
  <bibl default='NO'>Allen Thorndike Rice (ed.), Reminiscences of
  Abraham Lincoln, by Distinguished Men of his Time, 16.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-07-06'>Tuesday, July 6, 1847.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Addresses are delivered by Andrew Stewart of Pennsylvania and David Dudley
            Field of New York. Latter takes "strict construction" view of Constitution and favors
            only such improvements as are consistent therewith. "In the afternoon Hon. Abraham
            Lincoln, a tall specimen of an Illinoisan . . . was called out, and spoke briefly and
            happily in reply to Mr. Field."<bibl default='NO'>N.Y. Tribune, 17 July
               1847.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-07-07'>Wednesday, July 7, 1847.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Resolutions to print and circulate proceedings are adopted and Executive
            Committee appointed to present its views to Congress. After speech by Edward Bates,
            presiding officer, convention adjourns. In afternoon "committee of the whole," with
            Horace Greeley in chair, adopts resolution advocating construction of railroad to
               Pacific.<bibl default='NO'>Fergus Historical Series, No. 18.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-07-08'>Thursday, July 8, 1847.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln boards stage at 9 A.M., arriving Peru next morning.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-07-09'>Friday, July 9, 1847.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln begins boat trip, Peru to Peoria, at 10 A.M.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-07-10'>Saturday, July 10, 1847.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Reaching Peoria at 2 A.M., Lincoln boards stage at 4 A.M., arriving
            Springfield that evening.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-07-14'>Wednesday, July 14, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> Gen. Hardin is buried. At 10 A.M. procession forms in public square and
            moves to his residence. Richard Yates pronounces eulogy. After burial "collation" is
            served in grove, where Richardson, Forman, and Baker speak.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>,</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> July 15, 1847 and July 20, 1847. Lincoln's attendance is likely, but not
            certain.</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-07-28'>Wednesday, July 28, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln takes oath before deputy clerk of Sangamon Circuit Court that John
            Grigg, defendant in <name type='case'>Crowl v. Grigg et al.</name>, is
            not resident of Illinois. He and Herndon file bill in chancery alleging that defendants
            are attempting to dispossess complainant of improvements erected on land which he
            supposed belonged to him but which has since been found to be outside his purchase.
            Lincoln also writes complainant's bond.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>