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wallace, frances todd (1817¬99)
Frances Todd, an older sister of MTL, came to Spring‚eld from Kentucky to live with another sister, Elizabeth Edwards. Her marriage to Dr. William S. Wallace, a leading Spring‚eld physician, in 1839 made room in the Edwards household for the younger sister, Mary. The Wallaces were present at the wedding of AL and Mary Todd at the Edwards home on November 4, 1842. (Wayne C. Temple, ed., Mrs. Frances Jane Wallace Describes Lincoln's Wedding [Harrowgate, Tenn., 1960]; ISJ, August 16, 1899)
warner, stephen m. (1831¬96)
A native of New England, Warner, along with Ferdinand Kohl of St. Louis, estab‚lished the Centralia Iron and Nail Works in Centralia, Illinois. (Centralia Senti‚nel, April 16, 1896)
wartmann, james w. (1832¬1917)
Virginia-born Wartmann attended school in Cincinnati before moving to Spen‚cer County, Indiana, where he practiced law in Rockport. In 1864 he moved to Evansville to serve as provost marshal and then commissioner of the board of en‚rollment. Though Wartmann apparently met AL in Washington, D.C., while on of‚cial business, he became WHH's ‚rst contact in Spencer County, Indiana, by being handed a letter that WHH had sent to Rockport addressed simply ¿Some Good Union Lawyer.î (Evansville Courier, April 16, 1915; Evansville Journal-News, July 2 and 3, 1917)
weber, john b. (1810¬89)
Originally a cabinetmaker by trade, Weber was appointed copyist of the land records of Illinois in 1841, following a disabling accident. Like his brother George
R. Weber, an editor of the Illinois State Register in Spring‚eld, John B. Weber be‚gan political life as a Democrat but converted to Republicanism following the Kansas-Nebraska Act. (Power; HSC; burial record card, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Spring‚eld, Ill.)
weldon, lawrence (1829¬1905)
In 1854 Weldon moved to Clinton, Illinois, and thereafter practiced law on the Eighth Judicial Circuit with AL. In 1861 AL appointed him U.S. district attor‚ney for the Southern District of Illinois. Later he practiced in Bloomington and served as associate justice of the U.S. Court of Claims. (HEI; New York Times, April 11, 1905)
wentworth, john (1815¬88)
After arriving in Chicago in 1836, ¿Long Johnî Wentworth became editor and then proprietor of the Chicago Democrat. A Democratic congressman in 1843¬51 and 1853¬55, he bolted from the party after the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
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