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William H. Herndon was born here in 1818, and his family moved to Illinois in 1820. An anti-slavery advocate, he was Abraham Lincoln’s law partner from 1844 to 1861. Herndon also served as Mayor of Springfield and as State Bank Examiner. After Lincoln’s death, he devoted his life to writing the biography of his friend and wrote “Herndon’s Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life” in 1889. He died in 1891 in Springfield, Illinois.
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