Freeport, IL

Headnote

Freeport, Is., c. h. Stephenson co. On Peekatonica River. 200 miles N. from Springfield. (Gazetteer of the United States of America, 1854)

Record Data

Place Unit Type

City or Town

Containing Unit

Stephenson County, IL

Note Cards

Events

Date		Type
08/27/1858	Lincoln and Douglas hold their second debate in Freeport, Illinois	Campaigns/Elections

Major Topics

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

People

Burial Place of

Atkins, Smith Dykins

Places

Name	Type
Brewster House, Freeport, IL	Location or Site

Documents

Date	Title
07/30/1858	Stephen Douglas to Abraham Lincoln, July 30, 1858
08/17/1858	John W. Shaffer to Abraham Lincoln, August 17, 1858
08/27/1858	Abraham Lincoln, Second Debate with Stephen Douglas, Freeport, Illinois, August 27, 1858
08/27/1858	Recollection by A.A. Terrell, Freeport, August 27, 1858
08/27/1858	Recollection by Elihu Benjamin Washburne, Freeport Debate, August 27, 1858
08/27/1858	Recollection by Carl Schurz , Freeport Debate, August 27, 1858
08/27/1858	Recollection by Horace White, Freeport Debate, August 27, 1858
08/27/1858	Recollection by Ingalls Carleton, Freeport Debate, August 27, 1858
08/27/1858	Recollection by Joseph Medill, Freeport Debate, August 27, 1858
08/30/1858	Chicago (IL) Times, "The Campaign - The Discussion at Freeport," August 30, 1858
09/02/1858	New York Evening Post, “The Senatorial Contest in Illinois,” September 2, 1858
09/02/1858	(St. Louis) Missouri Republican, "Douglas - Lincoln," September 2, 1858
09/14/1858	Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln, September 14, 1858
09/15/1858	Recollection by Usher F. Linder, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
09/17/1858	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "The Jonesboro Debate," September 17, 1858
09/20/1858	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Douglas Puffers and Valets," September 20, 1858
09/21/1858	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "The Charleston Debate," September 21, 1858
09/23/1858	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Who Furnishes the Audiences?," September 23, 1858
09/14/1859	M. A. Northrop to Abraham Lincoln, September 14, 1859
01/15/1860	Abraham Lincoln to Alonzo J. Grover, January 15, 1860
08/23/1860	Ripley (OH) Bee, “Mr. Lincoln’s Foresight,” August 23, 1860
11/12/1860	John P. Sanderson to David Davis, November 12, 1860

Images

Freeport, Illinois, 1859, central area

Bibliography

Lincoln, Douglas, and the "Freeport Question"

Freeport, Illinois (Hayward)

Atkins, Smith Dykins

Freeport, Illinois, 1859, central area