Lemon, J. E., 319 Lincoln, A., xxiii, xxix, 26, 106, 108, 186, 194, 241, 301, 309 Logan, S. T., xxviii, 328 McClure, A. K., vii Murray, Bronson, 311, 312 Oglesby, R. J., 330 Perkins, A. J., 145 Pickens, Gov. F. W., 75, 78 Pleasanton, A., 289 Pope, John, 316 Scott, Winfield, 314 Seward, W. H., xxxi Shaffer, J. W., 329 Smith, Jas. H., 312 Stanton, Ed. M., 252 Swett, Leonard, 313, 318 Taylor, Hawkins, 315, 327 Usher, Secy. J. P., v, xxv, 320, 322 Weed, Thurlow, 34 Weldon, Lawrence, xxxii, 318 Wentworth, Jno., 331 Wheeler, Wm. A., 234 Yates, Richard, xxiv [Illustration: _WARD HILL LAMON._] [Illustration: Hand written letter] MEMOIR OF WARD H. LAMON. Ward H. Lamon was born in Frederick County, about two miles north of Winchester, in the state of Virginia, on the 6th day of January, 1828. Two years after his birth his parents moved to Berkeley County in what is now West Virginia, near a little town called Bunker Hill, where he received a common school education. At the age of seventeen he began the study of medicine which he soon abandoned for law. When nineteen years of age he went to Illinois and settled in Danville; afterwards attending lectures at the Louisville (Ky.) Law School. Was admitted to the Bar of Kentucky in March, 1850, and in January, 1851, he was admitted to the Illinois Bar, which comprised Abraham Lincoln, Judge Stephen T. Logan, Judge David Davis, Leonard Swett, and others of that famous coterie, all of whom were his fast friends. [Illustration: Conclusion of a Legal Document signed by Lincoln and Lamon.] They all rode the circuit together, there being no railroads at that time in the State. And it has been said that, "It is doubtful if the bar of any other state of the union equalled that of the frontier state of Illinois in professional ability when Lincoln won his spurs." A legal partnership was formed between Mr. Lamon and Mr. Lincoln for the practice of law in the eighth District. Headquarters of this partnership was first at Danville and then at Bloomington. Was elected District Attorney for the eighth District in 1856, which office he continued to hold until called upon by Mr. Lincoln to accompany him to Washington. It was upon Mr. Lamon that Mr. Lincoln and his friends relied to see him safely to the National Capitol, when it became necessary at Harrisburg to choose one companion for the rest of the journey.[A] [A] EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Feb. 9, 1861. DEAR GOVERNOR,--You will bear me witness that I seldom trouble my friends in Washington with letters of introduction. I must now ask you to indulge me in a suspension of this general rule, especially as my object has as much to do with your future as my own.