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| Illinois (Menard County), Petersburg — Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District — Petersburg, Illinois — County-Seat Marker | | | Abraham Lincoln
traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ··· 1847 - 1857 — Map (db m12136) | | Illinois (Menard County), Petersburg — Dr. Benjamin Franklin Stephenson — 1823 - 1871 | | | Founder of the Grand Army of the Republic, Menard County resident, Rush Medical College graduate 1850, Surgeon 14th Illinois Volunteers 1861-1864. He originated the G.A.R. name, ritual and constitution of Post No. 1, Decatur April 6, 1866, called First National G.A.R. Convention and was its First Adjutant General. — Map (db m12315) |
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