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  • Lincoln Visits Dubuque

                When I first published versions of this article in two magazines back around 2008, I relied on scant and inaccurate accounts.  Thanks to a recent two-part article by John T. Pregler in the Iowa History Journal (“Locating Lincoln:  Research confirms rumored trip to Dubuque in 1859,” March/April and May/June, 2021), I have been able…

  • Lincoln’s Burlington Visit

                Lincoln’s legal practice saw steady growth, while his political career advanced by fits and starts.  After an unsuccessful run for one of Illinois’s U.S. Senate seats in 1854-55, he stood for the other in 1858.  In October of that year he went to Burlington, Iowa to give a speech.  There may not have been…

  • Abraham Lincoln and the Case of the First Mississippi River Bridge

    by Grant Veeder             Lincoln was a natural public speaker whose abilities to clearly explain difficult concepts and to emotionally sway his listeners formed a strong underpinning to his successful legal career.  The wide respect for his reputation led to his involvement in a lawsuit that had a dramatic effect on Iowa’s early growth.  The…

  • Abraham Lincoln and the Hawkeye State: Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

               In these articles about Lincoln, I’ve done my best to adhere to documented facts, which is often hard to do with a historical figure who has achieved legendary status.  I beg forgiveness for the arid prose that sometimes results, and in an effort to make it up to you, this month we will explore…

  • Abraham Lincoln and the Hawkeye State: Lincoln’s Iowa Land Holdings

    Encouraged by the 20-odd people reading my Abraham Lincoln-related compositions, I am considering what I should write about next. In the meantime, I am going to post some articles I wrote several years ago. First were some articles about Lincoln’s connections to Iowa that I initially wrote for the Iowa County, the monthly magazine of…

  • Grant Veeder’s First Blog Post

    As a member of the Iowa Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission during the official term of that celebration (2008-2010) I wrote several presentations and articles, at first involving Lincoln’s connections to the state of Iowa and then branching into other Lincoln-related subjects to satisfy requests or my own inclinations. For a long time my book reading…

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