Four Sons of Pittsfield, IL - Citizen Memorials on Waymarking.com

County of commemoration: Pike County
Location of commemoration: Washington St., courthouse lawn, Pittsfield
Date commemoration erected: June 24, 1925
Commemoration erected by: Pittsfield Chamber of Commerce

Plaque Text:

COMMEMORATING Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, who practiced at the Pike County Bar in early days and who spoke in this park in the Senatorial Campaign of 1858; John Hay, author of Pike County Ballads, diplomatist and Secretary of State 1898 - 1905, who received his academic education here; and John G. Nicolay, private secretary to President Lincoln, who edited the Whig Free Press published here prior to the Civil War.

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For more on these men - Abraham Lincoln,   Stephen Douglas,   John Hay,   John G. Nicolay

Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: [Web Link] Location: courthouse lawn

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