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During the presidential campaign of 1840, Abraham Lincoln spoke in the oak grove of General William Pickering north of here while stumping southern Illinois as a Whig elector for General William Henry Harrison in the Tippecanoe and Tyler Too campaign. In 1861, Lincoln appointed Pickering governor of Washington Territory.
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Albion, Illinois · United States
