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bcnmiat said Lincoln may have slept in the Warrenville home owned by Richard and Meghan Gluth, 3S476 4th St.“There’s nothing definite, Schmidt admitted.“We see a connection, but we’re not sure. It would be nice to find out.Schmidt, who wrote “The Life and Times of Warrenville and “Fly to the Prairie, a book on the Warren family from 1832 to 1844, said a good friend of Lincoln’s lived in the Gluth home.Mason Brayman, who was a lawyer, editor and eventually territorial governor of Idaho, lived in the Gluth home from 1852 to 1855.During that time, he was a solicitor for the Illinois Central Railroad m the railroad's formative years.Brayman, who came to Warrenville from Springfield, hired Lincoln as an attorney to try some of the railroad’s important cases.Schmidt said historians have tried to pinpoint exactly where Brayman’s house was for a long time.Wheaton and Naperville fought over which would be the county seat.New information turned up in a file of Mason Brayman’s correspondence in the State Historical Library in Springfield.Schmidt said letters between Brayman and Colonel Julius Warren, a member of Warrenville’s founding family, confirm the house on 4th Street as the former Brayman house.Schmidt said Brayman took part in many Illinois activites. In 1843, he was appointed by the Governor to do reconciliation work with the Mormons in Downstate Illinois.In 1844, he revised and codified the state statutes.In 1876, he was appointed by PresidentUlysses Grant to be territorial governor of Idaho.Schmidt said the Giuths recently have remodeled the home.
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Dekalb World
Dekalb, Illinois, US
Thu, May 17, 1979
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