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	Ward Hill Lamon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lamon was famously missing the night Lincoln was assassinated, having been sent by Lincoln to Virginia.
		Lamon was not in Washington on the night of Lincoln's assassination, being on assignment in Richmond.
		Lamon himself penned a second volume about Lincoln after falling out with Black, though it was deemed to be of poor quality and remains unpublished in the collections of the Huntington Library to this day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ward_Hill_Lamon (742 words)

	Ward Hill Lamon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lamon was famously missing the night Lincoln was (additional info and facts about assassinated) assassinated, having been sent by Lincoln to (A state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War) Virginia.
		Lamon joined the then-young (The younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP is an acronym for grand old party) Republican Party and campaigned for Lincoln in 1860.
		Lamon was not in Washington on the night of Lincoln's assassination, being on assignment in (Capital of the state of Virginia located in the east central part of the state; was capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War) Richmond.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wa/Ward_Hill_Lamon.htm (760 words)

	Pantagraph.com - Sesqui! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lamon was held in high esteem among Lincoln's closest friends, including David Davis of Bloomington, who was the 8th Circuit judge when Lincoln was one of the circuit's roaming lawyers and Lamon was the prosecutor.
		Lamon was known in Bloomington for his sense of humor and outlandish style, including his longish hair, drooping mustache and penchant for lavender waistcoats.
		Lamon took this to mean that Lincoln's safety was his primary responsibility, and near the end of the Civil War, he seldom left the president's side.
	www.pantagraph.com /cityguide/sesqui/obscure1.html (1348 words)

	Lamon House - History - Vermilion County Museum Society
		Her husband, Joseph Lamon, was the cousin of Ward Hill Lamon, a Danville attorney who was for four years the law partner of Abraham Lincoln, and who later went to Washington, D.C. with Lincoln to act as the friend and bodyguard during the Civil War (1861-1865).
		The Lamon House is furnished with pieces primarily of the 1850 - 1875 era.
		It was known as "The Bird House" because of its Victorian charm and the fact that its owner was Laura Bird, the surviving daughter of Joseph and Melissa Lamon who had built the house in another era, nearly a century earlier.
	www.lamonhouse.org /history.html (360 words)

	Skeptical Inquirer: Paranormal Lincoln.(Abraham Lincoln's premoniti... @ HighBeam Research
		She thought it was "a sign" that I was to be elected to a second term of office, and that the paleness of one of the faces was an omen that I should not see life through the last term.
		Lamon was a friend of Lincoln's, a fearless man who accompanied him to Washington for his protection, being given the special title, Marshal of the District of Columbia.
		Lamon's account may be true, although he has been criticized for having "fed the fire of superstition that people were kindling about the name of Lincoln" (Lewis 1973, 294).
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:54600088&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (2942 words)

	Lamon House - Vermilion County Museum Society
		The Lamon House is a Greek Revival Cottage built in 1850 by Joseph and Melissa Beckwith Lamon.
		The Lamon House is believed to be the oldest frame house in the Danville Area.
		Joseph is the cousin of Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln's law partner and bodyguard.
	lamonhouse.org (100 words)

	HarpWeek \| Elections \| 1864 Biographies
		ard Lamon, law partner and sometimes bodyguard of Abraham Lincoln, was born in Frederick County, Virginia, to Elizabeth Ward Lamon and George Lamon.
		At the age of 19 young Lamon moved to Danville, Illinois, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar a few years later.
		Lamon ended his tenure as marshal and formed a law partnership with Jeremiah Black, the former U.S. attorney general and secretary of state under President James Buchanan.
	elections.harpweek.com /1864/bio-1864-Full.asp?UniqueID=16&Year=1864 (293 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: Ward Hill Lamon (1828-1893)
		Lamon was appointed by President Lincoln as marshal of the District of Colombia in which post he enforced the fugitive Slave Law to the consternation of many Republicans.
		Lamon served as a special representative of the President to Charleston before the fall of Fort Sumter and raised troops after it.
		Lamon took a personal interest and responsibility for the President's safety—from the time he accompanied the President-elect on his surreptitious entry into Washington via train from Harrisburg to Philadelphia to Baltimore and thence to the capital.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=61&subjectID=2 (903 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Learning more about Lincoln - Friday \| February 1, 2002
		(Lamon was Lincoln's law partner and accompanied Lincoln to Washington.) It is clear from the writings of that author and from the many letters he cites, that Americans of that era wrote English at a standard far, far above that of today.
		What I did not know was that, according to Lamon, it was not until after Lincoln's death a year and a half later, and then only because of praise given the speech by European journals, that its greatness was first perceived in America.
		Finally, I knew already that Lincoln had a dry, abiding sense of humour, and that it must have buoyed him during the periods of desperate sadness that it was his fate to experience, both in his Presidency and in his personal life.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20020201/cleisure/cleisure3.html (664 words)

	Ward Hill Lamon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in Virginia in 1828, Lamon studied law in Louisville, Kentucky, and settled in Danville, Illinois, where he was admitted to the bar.
		Lamon's association with Abraham Lincoln began in the 1850s, when he became a law part ner and traveled with Lincoln on the circuit.
		Lamon was absent from Washington on the night of Lincoln's assassination.
	www.tulane.edu /%7Elatner/Lamon.html (169 words)

	Lincoln and his Marshal
		Ward Hill Lamon, soon to be commissioned the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, accompanied the President-elect.
		While Lamon devoted himself to serving and protecting the Yankee president, his mother and brothers transferred their loyalty to the south.
		Such an action, Lamon felt, would prove to the South and most foreign nations "the confidence of the U.S. sustaining herself and will give at the same time many idlers employment, thereby identifying them to some extent with the government." Yet, rebuilding the Treasury building was hardly enough to keep the Union together.
	www.usdoj.gov /marshals/history/lincoln/lincoln_and_his_marshal.htm (432 words)

	Thomas F. Schwartz \| 'I have never had any doubt of your good intentions': William Henry Herndon and Ward Hill Lamon as ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lamon states that the marriage records of Thomas and Sarah Johnston "were easily found in the place where the law required them to be; but of Nancy Hank's marriage there exists no evidence but that of mutual acknowledgment and cohabitation."
		I think that it is hardly possible that the Judge can have read Lamon's two letters to me, and mine intervening, with the care necessary to possess himself fully of the situation, for he seems to think that Lamon has been injured by me, and that I ought to take steps to appease him.
		Lamon, because his book was written by him when he had so far deteriorated in position as to be what was known as a jackal of the famous copperhead Jeremiah Black,
	jala.press.uiuc.edu /14.1/schwartz_1.html (4424 words)

	The Truth About Tariffs (James McPherson on civil war tariffs) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lamon, along with Lincoln's law partner William Herndon and longtime friend Joshua Speed, probably new and witnessed Lincoln's day-to-day life better than any other man who ever knew him so there is no reason to doubt that Lamon, if he was telling the truth, would have been privy to that sort of information.
		Lamon quotes multiple paragraphs from Taney's _Merryman_ opinion, a public document, but passes over the alleged warrant (or whatever it was), a historic matter of which he has sole knowledge, in only a couple of sentences.
		Lamon's notes and recollections on Lincoln encompass a period from roughly 1866 to Lamon's death, and only a small portion of them made it into the biography edited by his daughter (subsequent editions of it, for example, have included appendixes with new passages).
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1069109/posts (7148 words)

	Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society: Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as ...
		Lincoln in turn appointed Lamon marshal of the District of Columbia, where he promptly alienated congressional radicals by enforcing the fugitive slave act.
		Lamon was in Richmond, Virginia on April 14 and thus was not on duty when most needed.
		Having failed in the end to protect his friend's life, Lamon, in the eyes of many, had the further ill-grace to assassinate Lincoln's character by writing a critical biography of his deceased patron.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3945/is_199907/ai_n8857199 (941 words)

	Freethought of the Day
		Lamon had known Lincoln as a friend and colleague for years.
		Lamon wrote that "Perhaps no phrase of his character has been more persistently misrepresented and variously misunderstood than this of his religious belief." Lamon related how Lincoln wrote a "little book," probably an extended essay, to prove "First, that the Bible is not God's revelation.
		Second, that Jesus was not the Son of God." He took the manuscript to Samuel Hill, a shopkeeper and unbeliever, whose son considered the work "infamous." Hill reportedly snatched the book from Lincoln and threw it into the fire to protect Lincoln's political career, a story other contemporaries corroborated had been told them.
	www.ffrf.org /day?day=12&month=2 (1432 words)

	ward - definition of ward by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ward - block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care; "they put her in a 4-bed ward"
		She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage.
		A lady in the next ward who walked last week first, peeked into the door, and another one who hopes she can walk next month, was invited in to the party, and she laid on my nurse's bed and clapped her hands.
	dict.thefreelibrary.com /Ward (856 words)

	Picture History - Ward H. Lamon (1828-1893)
		Ward Hill Lamon was the law partner and self-appointed bodyguard of Abraham Lincoln.
		Lamon was ostentatious, bawdy, and a heavy drinker.
		On April 14, 1865, Lamon was on assignment in Richmond and therefore was not in the theater when the president was assassinated.
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/16799/mcms.html (145 words)

	Ward Hill Lamon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ward Hill Lamon (January 6, 1828 - May 7, 1893) was the bodyguard of the American President Abraham Lincoln who was famously missing the night Lincoln was assassinated.
		He accompanied Lincoln when he famously sneaked to Washington on a midnight train ride through Baltimore.
		Lincoln's famous dream of his own assassination was related to Lamon, who himself related it in a book, well after the event, Lincoln's story as Lamon related it is worth telling:
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ward_hill_lamon (578 words)

	Lincoln and his Marshal
		U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon, who was as tall as the President, was seated at left so as not to distract from Lincoln.
		Lamon took upon himself the difficult task of protecting Lincoln, who had no patience with protective measures.
		One story has it that on the night of Lincoln's inauguration Lamon slept, with pistols and Bowie knife, on the floor outside the new president's bedroom, his large body stretched in front of the door.
	www.usdoj.gov /marshals/history/lincoln/united_states_marshals_service_2.htm (607 words)

	Abraham Lincoln Dreamed of Assassination - Dreams
		Ward Hill Lamon gives an account of the dream in his book Recollections of Abraham Lincoln.
		In his dream, he got up and wandered through the house, seeing no one but continuing to hear "people who were grieving as though their hearts would break." He finally came upon a room where a funeral scene was taking place surrounded by armed guards.
		In a book review on Amazon, Lamon is criticized in his accounts of Lincoln as being biased since he was a close personal friend of the president's.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art29967.asp (261 words)

	Newspaper clipping of 26 September 1926
		The establishment of the fair dates back in 1851, when a meeting of the leading settlers of the county met in a vacant lot, now the site of the Presbyterian church, in Danville, and discussed the project.
		Among the promoters of the scheme were Harvey Sodowsky, Samuel Baum, Martin Moudy, P. Spencer, Ward Hill Lamon, J. Oakwood and Alvan Gilbert.
		At the meeting Ward Hill Lamon, local law partner of Abraham Lincoln, assisted by John W. Newlon, of Catlin, exhibited a trick monkey and then rode his then famous race horse against his own record.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ilchs/history/newspapr/1926/n260926a.htm (1466 words)

	The Winchester Star-‘Miss Dolly’ Offers Look at Colorful Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hutton’s research on Dolly began with her father, Ward Hill Lamon, who was born in 1828 near Stephenson, moved to Illinois, become a lawyer, and eventually formed a partnership with Abraham Lincoln in 1852.
		Lamon married Angeline Strode Turner of Berkeley County, and the couple had Dolly on Nov. 13, 1858.
		Angeline Lamon died five months later, and Dolly was raised by an aunt and uncle in Danville, Ill.
	www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/030820/Area_dolly.asp (1371 words)

	SEANCES IN THE WHITE HOUSE? LINCOLN & THE SUPERNATURAL
		Lamon often resigned his position because his friend did not take the danger seriously.
		Lamon became obsessed with watching over Lincoln and many believe that the president would not have been killed at Ford’s Theater had Lamon been on duty that night.
		Several years after that, it was to Lamon and Mary Lincoln to whom the president would recount an eerie dream of death, just shortly before his assassination.
	www.prairieghosts.com /a_lincoln.html (4262 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: James S. Wadsworth (1807-1864)
		As a proponent of emancipation and commander of Union forces in Washington, he clashed with D.C. City Marshal Ward Hill Lamon over arrests of contrabands and former slaves.
		Lamon was aggressive in arresting those he viewed as fugitive slaves while Wadsworth was an outspoken advocate of emancipation.
		At night went to the Presidents at his request, to meet Marshall Lamon & Genl Wadsworth, the military Governor of the District, and try to devise some mode to prevent collisions between the civil and military authorities in the execution of the fugitive slave law.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=691&subjectID=2 (786 words)

	Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The atrocities and war crimes on the part of the North were so heinous that they had to cover up their war on women and children by deifying their leader, thus the Lincoln Legacy came about, not on it own, but by the very men in the party that despised him.
		Lamon tells us after his assassination he was compared to the Savior and Redeemer of mankind.
		Hill got this book in his hands, opened the stove door, and it went up in flames and ashes.
	www.cbt.net /jimcheat/lincoln.htm (1243 words)

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