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Colonel Everton J. Conger, who commanded the troops that captured Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, built this house in 1871. He practiced law in Carmi, became a Federal judge in Montana Territory, and later moved to Hawaii where he was an advisor to Queen Liliuokalani. This house was remodeled in 1941.
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Carmi, Illinois · United States
