Quincy Friends

Quincy Friends*

“You are one of my most valued friends.”
– Lincoln to Jonas, 1860

“When I first came to Washington I spent a week at the ‘White House.’ I had many conversations with the president. . .and I do think he is one of the Wisest best men of the age.”
– Eliza to her Aunt C. Prewitt of Kentucky, March 1862

“Our friendship was close, warm, and I believe sincere.”
– Browning

Henry Asbury

“He was an intimate personal and political friend of Abraham Lincoln and was the man who framed for him the four questions propounded to Stephen A. Douglas at Freeport in the famous debates in 1858.”
– Quincy Daily Journal

Archibald Williams

John Wood

Jaquess’s 1864 mission to the Confederacy “proved of extreme service” to Lincoln’s reelection.

Editor, lawyer and friend of Lincoln, Johnston appreciated and published Lincoln’s poetry.

Lincoln wanted Richardson, one of the Senator Stephen A. Douglas’s closest political friends and advisors, as a Union General.

“My intercourse with (Lincoln) for the past six months has been so free, frequent and confidential that I was fully advised of all his plans and thoroughly persuaded of the honesty of his heart and wisdom of his humane intentions.”
– Singleton

       “Archie Williams was one of the strongest-minded and clearest-minded men in Illinois.”
                                                          – Abraham Lincoln

Wood on May 22, 1860, invited presidential candidate Lincoln “to take and use the (governor’s office at the Illinois State Capitol) at your pleasure.” Lincoln used it as his presidential campaign headquarters.

* Pamphlet of the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County, “Abraham Lincoln and Quincy, Illinois: Personal and Political Connections.” Quincy, Illinois, 2007.