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Lot 184
[LINCOLN] 1844 Lincoln Power of Attorney Document
Estimate: $500 - $750
Sold for
$450
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Manuscript document signed by Peter Van Bergen. Tazewell County, Illinois, 3 September 1844. 1 page, 4to, docketed to verso.
A document granting Abraham Lincoln and John T. Stuart power of attorney for Peter Van Bergen in the case of Nathaniel A. Ware vs. Edward Jones and Others in chancery court.
The document dates from the period of Lincoln's legal partnership with Stephen Logan, which they began in 1841. Logan maintained the practice in Springfield while Lincoln traveled the Eighth Judicial Circuit, which brought Lincoln to Tazewell County. They dissolved their practice in December 1844, when Logan opened a practice with his son and Lincoln opened his own practice, soon partnering with William Herndon, who had clerked in the Logan & Lincoln law office.
[Abraham Lincoln, Politics, Mary Todd Lincoln, 1860 Election, Election of 1860, 1864 Election, Election of 1864, Lincoln Assassination, John Wilkes Booth] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs]
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