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<date value='1837-02-08'>Wednesday, February 8, 1837.</date>
<place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Senate resolution setting February 13, 1837 as last day for new business
and 28th for adjournment is adopted, 60 to 10, Lincoln voting nay. He votes with
majority to compensate Vandalia citizens for new state house, erected in 1836 without
authority. He votes yea on passage of bill extending Shawneetown Bank
incorporation.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-02-08'>Thursday,
February 8, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
IL</place>.</dateline>
<p>Lincoln writes a bond for costs in the
case of <name type='case' key='L02874'>Cannan v. Kenney</name>. Stuart &
Lincoln's client Manley F. Cannan accuses defendant Mathew P. Kenney of using
Cannan's horse without permission. <bibl default='NO'>Bond, 8 February 1838, <ital>Cannan v.
Kenney</ital>, Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-02-08'>Friday, February 8, 1839.</date>
<place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Act to distribute school fund to counties occupies House during morning.
Lincoln votes yea on amendments making it optional whether fund be distributed or placed
in bank to constitute trust fund to be loaned on real estate, banks to guarantee 8 per
cent.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
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<date value='1840-02-08'>Saturday, February 8, 1840.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Stuart & Lincoln buy $2.62 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
merchant.<bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 8 February 1840, Irwin &
Corneau, 185, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln writes notice entering himself as security for costs in <name type='case' key='L04847'>Tydings & Widney v. Hathaway &
Fullenwider</name>, Sangamon Circuit Court case. <bibl default='NO'>File.</bibl>
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<date value='1841-02-08'>Monday, February 8, 1841.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> On Lincoln's motion, House resolves itself into Committee of the Whole to
consider committee reports on public lands. Lincoln writes circular for Whig committee
protesting judiciary act. Signers are S. H. Little, E. D. Baker, J. J. Hardin, E. B.
Webb, J. Gillespie, and Lincoln.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>House Journal</title>; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A257' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Circular from Whig Committee
Against the Judiciary Bill</xref>, [8?] February 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:234-37.</bibl>
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<date value='1843-02-08'>Wednesday, February 8, 1843.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Argument is begun in <name type='case' key='L02088'>Edwards
et al. v. Helm</name> (SC), suit to foreclose mortgage, from Madison County, by N. D.
Strong for plaintiff. Lincoln and Junius Hall also represent plaintiff and William
Martin and B. S. Edwards defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
</p>
<p> [Semple, Douglas, and Linder speak on Oregon question in evening at state
house.<bibl default='NO'>Alton Telegraph, 18 February
1843.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1844-02-08'>Thursday, February 8, 1844.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Argument begun yesterday in <name type='case' key='L02088'>Warner & Craig v. Helm et al.</name> is continued by Edwards, Stuart, and
Martin for defendants and concluded by Lincoln for plaintiffs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1845-02-08'>Saturday, February 8, 1845.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p>
<name type='case'>Hall v. Irwin et al.</name> is continued by consent of
Minshall for plaintiff and Lincoln for defendant. Case, appealed from Sangamon County,
involves want of power in administrator to convey real estate and title under will.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1847-02-08'>Monday, February 8, 1847.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln loses <name type='case'>Henderson v. Welch</name>
when Supreme Court affirms decision of McHenry Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>8 Ill. 340.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<name type='case'>Cooper v. Crosby et al.</name> is tried by Lincoln for
appellant and Logan for appellees. Lincoln replies to letter from Henry E. Dummer of
Beardstown: "I have procured Judge Lockwood's part to be performed and now mail the
record to St. Louis as you desired."<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%3A410' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry E.
Dummer</xref>, 8 February 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:392.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-02-08'>Thursday, February 8, 1849.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln votes in favor of motion to table joint resolution from
Senate "to extend the time for receiving proposals for the printing
of Congress." Motion passes 90-86.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
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<date value='1850-02-08'>Friday, February 8, 1850.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln receives letter from Sylvester Emmons of Cass County,
requesting recommendation for appointment under U.S. marshal. He
writes to Thomas J. Turner about land 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%3A119' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Sylvester Emmons</xref>, 9 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:72-73; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A118' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas J. Turner</xref>, 8 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:72.</bibl>
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<date value='1853-02-08'>Tuesday, February 8, 1853.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln buys $2.06 in merchandise.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
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<date value='1854-02-08'>Wednesday, February
8, 1854.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes
to John Marshall of Shawneetown, Illinois, regarding some books that Marshall
sent to Springfield. The previous day, Lincoln distributed copies of a novel,
written by Marshall's daughter Sarah Marshall, to various booksellers and to
two of the local newspapers. Lincoln confides, "I am not much of a reader of
this sort of literature; but my wife got hold of the volume I took home, read
it half through last night, and is greatly interested in it." Lincoln adds, "My
attention to this matter has been rather a pleasure than a trouble." <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%3A251' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to John Marshall</xref>, 8 February 1854,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:210-11.</bibl>
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<date value='1855-02-08'>Thursday, February 8, 1855.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Legislature elects Lyman Trumbull U.S. senator. On first ballot
Lincoln receives 44 votes, Shields 41 and Trumbull 5, but it is soon
apparent that Matteson, not Shields, is real choice of Nebraska men
and enough Anti-Nebraska men to elect him. Realizing his own defeat,
Lincoln throws votes to Trumbull and elects him on tenth ballot.
<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%3A312' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne</xref>, 9 February 1855, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:304-6.</bibl>
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<date value='1858-02-08'>Monday, February 8, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p>In the U. S. Circuit Court,
Lincoln & Logan represent the Morgan County Bank in the case of
<name type='case' key='L02145'>Gale v. Morgan County Bank</name>. The plaintiff
Dewitt C. Gale asks the court to grant him a new trial. Gale is suing the bank
for $10,000 in damages. He claims that the bank failed to credit his account
with deposits he made totaling $4,000. On January 16, a jury found for the
bank. Judge Samuel H. Treat advises the parties that he does not have
sufficient information to rule on the request for a new trial, and that he will
take "time to consider" the motion. Judge Treat then adjourns the court until
the next morning. <bibl default='NO'>Order, 8 February 1858, <ital>Gale v. Morgan County
Bank</ital>, Record Group 21, General Records, Vol. 1, 297; Narratio, filed 30
May 1857, <ital>Gale v. Morgan County Bank</ital>, Record Group 21, case file
142; Affidavit of Henry R. Read, 10 June 1857, <title>Gale v. Morgan County
Bank</title>, Record Group 21, case file 142; Judgment, 16 January 1858,
<ital>Gale v. Morgan County Bank</ital>, Record Group 21, Vol. 1, 253, all in
U. S. Circuit Court, Southern District of Illinois, National Archives and
Records Administration, Great Lakes Region, Chicago, IL.</bibl>
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<date value='1859-02-08'>Tuesday, February 8, 1859.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
In <name type='case' key='L02102'>Ammidown v. Keyes</name> leave is granted Lincoln & Herndon, attorneys for plaintiff, to withdraw note on which suit is brought.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<p>
Lincoln writes $1.47 check to Sangamon County tax collector.
<bibl default='NO'>DLC—Original.</bibl>
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<p>
Robert pays $6 to Smith's store for three loads of wood.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 154.</bibl>
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<date value='1860-02-08'>Wednesday, February 8, 1860.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln and Browning have "free talk about the Presidency." Browning
favors Bates of Missouri. Lincoln admits that Bates may be strongest
candidate in Illinois, that Bates can get votes "even in this County
that he cannot get." Perhaps when convention meets he may think
Bates's nomination "the very best thing that can be done."
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
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Lincoln writes to Henry E. Dummer of Beardstown on law 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=lincoln3;node=lincoln3%3A188' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Henry E. Dummer</xref>, 8 February 1860, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 3:517.</bibl>
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<date value='1861-02-08'>Friday, February 8, 1861.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Lincoln accepts invitation of Pennsylvania Legislature to visit
Harrisburg. Also accepts invitation to visit Cleveland, Ohio.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A302' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Darwin A. Finney and Others</xref>, 8 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:188; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A303' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. Senter and Others</xref>, 8 February 1861, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:188.</bibl>
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<p>
Member of Georgia Secession Convention tries unsuccessfully to exact
from Lincoln positive committal on one of compromise propositions.
<bibl default='NO'>Villard, <title corresp='books_Villard1'>Eve of '61</title>, 64-65.</bibl>
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<p>
Lincoln family vacates home on Eighth St. and occupies rooms in Chenery House.
<bibl default='NO'>Henry B. Rankin, <title>Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln</title> (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1924), 258-59.</bibl>
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Lincoln withdraws $17.50 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 175.</bibl>
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<p>
Buys from Hartford Fire Insurance Co. insurance policy on house
($3,000), carriagehouse ($75), woodhouse and privy ($125) for premium
of $24 per year.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 70.</bibl>
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<date value='1862-02-08'>Saturday, February 8, 1862.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President receives petition from citizens of
Colorado requesting removal of Gov. Gilpin (Colo. Terr.) following repudiation
of government drafts issued by him to pay for military equipment, and
appointment of W. Larimer, Jr. <bibl default='NO'>DNA—WR RG 107, Off. Sec. War,
Letters Received, Box 1.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Usual Saturday reception is not held
because Willie has typhoid fever. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 8 February 1862; N.Y.
Tribune, 11 February 1862.</bibl>
</p>
<p> [Irwin withdraws $24 from
Springfield Marine Bank to pay insurance on Lincoln Springfield home.]
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>,
177.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln writes Gen. McClellan: "Have you any farther news
from the West [Gens. Halleck and Buell]? Have you heard from the Canal-boats
[to form a bridge across Potomac at Liverpool Point]? Have you determined, as
yet, upon the contemplated movement we last talked of [Gen. Hooker]?" <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A278' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to George B. McClellan</xref>, 8 February 1862,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 5:130.</bibl>
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<date value='1864-02-08'>Monday, February 8, 1864.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President interviews Sen. Doolittle (Wis.) and makes known to him
certain views of
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A369' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 8 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:174.</bibl>
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<p>
Accompanied by family, visits Washington Theatre to see Laura Keene
in "Sea of Ice."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 9 February 1864.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
[Irwin withdraws $33.55 from Springfield Marine Bank.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 177.</bibl>]
</p>
<p>
Lincoln assures Gov. Isaac Murphy (Ark.) that Gen. Steele will
support Murphy's plan to organize state government.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A366' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Murphy</xref>, 8 February 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:173-74.</bibl>
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<date value='1865-02-08'>Wednesday, February 8, 1865.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President signs and return to Congress "Joint Resolution declaring
certain States not entitled to representation in the Electoral
College," with statement that signing does not express any opinion or
judgment of his own upon subject of resolution.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A584' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 8 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:270-71.</bibl>
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<p>
Interviews P. E. Bland and William Wallace, representing District of
West Tennessee, relative to hardships of people.
<bibl default='NO'>Bland and Wallace to Lincoln, 11 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<p>
Writes Gen. Grant for permission to use Grant's dispatch of February
1, 1865 to
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
, in report to House of Representatives
regarding "interview with Messrs. Stephens, Hunter & Campbell."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A582' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 8 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:269-70.</bibl>
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<p>
Transmits to Congress copy of note addressed to secretary of state
relative to gift of sword to Capt. Henry S. Stellwagen (USN) as mark
of gratitude for his services to British brigantine "Mersey."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A585' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate and House of Representatives</xref>, 8 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:271.</bibl>
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<p>
Writes former Gov. John G. Smith (Vt.) regarding "the government's
promise to fairly allow credits for men previously furnished," when
setting quotas for pending call for 300,000 men.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A586' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John G. Smith</xref>, 8 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:271-72.</bibl>
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