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<date value='1855-07-02'>Monday, July 2, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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U.S. Circuit and District Courts for new Northern District of
Illinois convene. Judges McLean and Drummond preside. "The dockets
are heavy, and include many important cases."
<bibl default='NO'>Chicago Democratic Press, 2 July 1855.</bibl>
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Lincoln attends session.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A330' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Hoyt</xref>, 10 July 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:314.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-07-03'>Tuesday, July 3, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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<name type='case' key='L02119'>Clark v. Stigleman et al.</name> transferred from Springfield on creation of Northern District, is sent back by agreement of attorneys. Lincoln represents plaintiff.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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[Lincoln's account at John Williams' store is charged 25¢ for
thread and "doz. Button Molds," and his drug store account is charged
15¢ for castor oil.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 147, 151.</bibl>]
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<date value='1855-07-05'>Thursday, July 5, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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Lincoln sends $480 to Aaron L. Chapin, president of Beloit College,
which Judge Davis gave him to deposit in Chicago bank to Chapin's
credit. He sends deposit certificate.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A329' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Aaron L. Chapin</xref>, 5 July 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:314.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-07-06'>Friday, July 6, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys $18.40 worth of wallpaper at John Williams', and
spends 80¢ at drug store for cream of tartar, soda, and soda
water.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 147, 151.</bibl>]
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<date value='1855-07-07'>Saturday, July 7, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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[Sometime during session of U.S. courts in Chicago Lincoln goes to
Rockford, where he studies reaper manufactured by Manny & Co. He
has been retained for defense in <name type='case'>McCormick v. Manny
& Co.</name>, and during June had interview with P. H. Watson,
prominent patent lawyer of Washington, DC, in regard to case.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A331' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Peter H. Watson</xref>, 23 July 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:314-15.</bibl>]
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<date value='1855-07-09'>Monday, July
9, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Chicago Democratic
Press reports: "Lawyers from Abroad.—The following are among the legal
gentlemen now in attendance upon the United States Courts sitting in this city:
Messrs. Abraham Lincoln, O. H. Browning, Archibald Williams, Joel Manning, B.
S. Edwards, Chas. Ballance, E. N. Powell, Judge H. M. Weed, A. L. Merriam, J.
K. Cooper, N. H. Purple, W. F. Brian, Judge Drury, and Hon. James Grant." </p>
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<date value='1855-07-10'>Tuesday, July 10, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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Lincoln writes Charles Hoyt of Aurora: "The U.S. Court is in session
here now; and we have succeeded, by agreement with Edwards, in
getting your case, and the three Rock-Island cases, dismissed, with
leave to the plaintiff to reinstate them by the next term, if he
desires."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A330' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Hoyt</xref>, 10 July 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:314.</bibl>
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Another of Lincoln's cases, <name type='case' key='L02216'>Taylor v. Humphries</name>, before U.S. Circuit Court at Springfield in Jan., is sent back to Southern District.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-07-11'>Wednesday, July 11, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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Lincoln has important case, <name type='case' key='L02241'>Forsyth v. Peoria, Illinois</name>. He and Williams represent plaintiff, Browning defendant. After court they take tea with R. S. Blackwell.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-07-12'>Thursday, July 12, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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Arguments commence in <name type='case' key='L02241'>Forsyth v. Peoria, Illinois</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-07-13'>Friday, July 13, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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Arguments in <name type='case' key='L02241'>Forsyth v. Peoria, Illinois</name> are concluded, and Judge McLean charges jury strongly in favor of defendant. Jury is still out when court adjourns.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-07-14'>Saturday, July 14, 1855.</date>
<place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
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Lincoln and Williams lose their case, for jury brings in verdict for defendant.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-07-18'>Wednesday, July 18, 1855.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln returns home, and is busy in U.S. Circuit Court. With Logan, he files exceptions to auditor's report in <name type='case' key='L02286'>Bank of Missouri v. Ryan et al.</name> On their motion, leave is given to take further testimony. Defendant Ryan is also ordered to answer by first Monday in Sept. [September 3, 1855]
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-07-21'>Saturday, July 21, 1855.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Robert Lincoln fetches half-pound of gunpowder tea from John Williams' store.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 147.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-07-23'>Monday, July 23, 1855.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln reminds P. H. Watson that he has not forwarded papers in
<name type='case'>McCormick v. Manny</name>. He secured copies of
bill and answer at Chicago, but he asks Watson to send evidence as
fast as possible. "During August, and the remainder of this month, I
can devote some time to the case, and, of course, I want all the
material that can be had."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A331' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Peter H. Watson</xref>, 23 July 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:314-15.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-07-27'>Friday, July 27, 1855.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Z. A. Enos, Sangamon County surveyor, completes survey of more of
Mrs. Bullock's land, at Lincoln's request.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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Lincoln writes Charles Ballance of Peoria: "Your letters of the 23rd. & 24th., the first having nothing, and the other $20 in it, are both received. Money is always acceptable to me; but when I left Chicago, I was not in <uLine>'extremis'</uLine> on that subject. Browning has written me that the court was hung in our Hall case." He also writes to Anson L. Brewer about status of <name type='case' key='L01011'>Kelly v. Evans</name>, Logan County estate case.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A332' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Ballance</xref>, 27 July 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:315; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A333' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Anson L. Brewer</xref>, 27 July 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:315-16.</bibl>
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