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See Widow’s letter, 1841.

In a 1922 column, Illinois State Journal writer John E. Vaughn explained why many saloons in 19th-century Springfield were located in alleys. See The Sazarac.

Virginia Stuart Brown, a descendant of Abraham Lincoln’s first law partner, was the last resident custodian of the Lincoln Home. See The Lincoln Home After the Lincolns.

Albert S. Edwards, his wife Josephine and daughter Mary Edwards Brown were custodians of the Lincoln Home from 1897 to 1924. See The Lincoln Home After the Lincolns.

Herman Hofferkamp, a Democratic politician, lived in the Lincoln Home from 1893 to 1897. See The Lincoln Home After the Lincolns.

Dr. Gustav Wendlandt, a German-born physician, lived in the Lincoln Home from 1879 to 1883. See The Lincoln Home After the Lincolns.

Jacob Akard, a butcher, brick mason and sewing machine salesman, rented the Lincoln Home from 1877 to 1879. He may have converted it to a boarding house. See The Lincoln Home After the Lincolns.

George Harlow, Illinois secretary of state from 1873 to 1881, and his family rented Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s former home from 1869 to 1877. See The Lincoln Home After the Lincolns.