Our Round Table president also said there was another man from Union who served in the House of Representatives in Springfield, Illinois, in 1861, and might have known Abraham Lincoln and William Herndon.
Abraham Lincoln was a mentor and friend to William Herndon. They knew each other for 15 years and Herndon was a partner with Lincoln in the law firm in Springfield.
Years after Lincoln's death, Herndon decided the time was right to write a biography of Lincoln and he set about finding and interviewing as many people as he could to write the "real" story. he found that he was not a very good writer and enlisted a professional writer to help him.
Herndon could help with the law office aspect of Lincoln's life but realized that was essentially boring, just law, other than his interactions with Lincoln there.
--Old Secesh
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