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Lincoln Law Partner William Herndon Autograph

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Lincoln Law Partner William Herndon Autograph
<B>Lincoln Law Partner William Henry Herndon Autograph Document Signed</B></I> "<I>Lincoln & Herndon p.q.</B></I>". Menard Co., Ill., December 1846, one and two-thirds pages, folio. Plaintiff Josiah James, administrator of the estate of Harlan Hatch, complains that at Sugar Grove in August 1844 William Engle gave Hatch a promissory note for $311.38 but "<I>hath not as yet paid the said sum or any part thereof</B></I>" and asks for $500 damages. Records show that this suit was dismissed on 2 December 1846 by agreement, at the defendant's cost. An unusually early Herndon document, dated just about two years after he commenced his long partnership with Lincoln. <I>From the Henry E. Luhrs Collection.</B></I>