Looking for Lincoln

Looking for Lincoln

The Lincoln-Douglas Debate of October 13, 1858, occurred in front of this Adams County Courthouse on Fifth Street, Quincy, before an estimated 12,000 gathered in Washington Park, just west.

The Story of Lincoln in Quincy

will be told in a series of “storyboards” that will be installed at eighteen Quincy locations important to the Lincoln-Quincy story.
     Quincy will join several Illinois communities in a “Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition” to share the Lincoln Legacy. The program will give visitors a continuity of experiences in Lincoln’s Illinois.
     Quincy’s Lincoln Bicentennial Commission will create and permanently install at historic sites in Quincy storyboards to tell the story of the 16th president’s connections to Quincy.
     Among the exhibitions will be the stories of:

Henry Asbury, political advisor.
Eliza Caldwell Browning, friend and confidant.
Orville Hickman Browning, political ally and friend
Stephen A. Douglas, former Quincy resident and nation’s strongest Democrat
James Jaquess, secret ambassador to the Confederates.
Andrew Johnston, local newspaper editor and publisher of Lincoln poetry.
Abraham Jonas, lawyer
William A. Richardson, loyal opposition
James W. Singleton, former Whig.
Archibald Williams, political friend
Governor John Wood of Quincy, political friend and Lincoln appointee.
Lincoln and the Search for Equality
Quincy in Lincoln’s time.
Founding of Quincy on the Western Frontier
Leisure and Politics of the 1850s.
The Know-Nothing Controversy of 1854.
Transportation in Lincoln’s Day.
Slavery across the River.
Quincy’s Importance in Lincoln’s World.
Lincoln’s Friends Rest Here