973.7L63 Illinois Watch Company 
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 The Book of A. Lincoln 
 Watches. 
 
LINCOLN ROOM 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 LIBRARY 
 
 MEMORIAL 
 
 the Class of 1901 
 
 founded by 
 
 HARLAN HOYT HORNER 
 
 and 
 
 HENRIETTA CALHOUN HORNER 
 

THE BOOK 
 
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 SPRINGFIELD 
 
THIS 
 NEW WATCH 
 
 WAS NAMED IN HONOR OF THE 
 FOREMOST CITIZEN OF OUR 
 CITY, ONE OF THE GREATEST 
 AMERICANS OF ALL TIMES, 
 WHO WAS A PERSONAL 
 FRIEND AND CONFIDANT OF 
 THE PARENTS OF MANY OF 
 OUR EMPLOYEES, — WHOSE 
 FINAL RESTING PLACE IS BUT 
 A SHORT DISTANCE FROM OUR 
 DOOR AND WHOSE MEMORY 
 AMERICA TODAY REVERES. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 
 
 1809-1865 
 
Lincoln's birthplace, hodgenville, Kentucky 
 
 LINCOLN 
 IN SPRINGFIELD 
 
 .LjINCOLN once told an interviewer that 
 the story of his early life might be told in 
 the single line from Gray's Elegy, 
 
 "The short and simple annals of the 
 poor." 
 
 He was born in a log cabin in Kentucky. 
 His boyhood and adolescence knew only 
 the grinding hardships of poverty and the 
 insatiate hunger for knowledge. 
 
 "All of his life he was a solitary man 
 communing with himself." 
 
 When he came to New Salem, Illinois, 
 he was twenty-two. He was one of the 
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 "long nine" of the Illinois general assem- 
 bly who made an indelible impress upon 
 Illinois. They secured the transfer of the 
 state capital from Vandalia to Springfield. 
 Lincoln followed this political act by 
 moving to the new capital to make it his 
 home. 
 
 On a March day in 1837, astride a bor- 
 rowed horse, he stopped before Joshua 
 Speed's store on the west side of the public 
 square of that village of mud streets and 
 twelve hundred people. Two saddle bags 
 contained his possessions. That day he 
 had received his license to practice law. 
 
 "Speed, I have come to Springfield to 
 live." 
 
 The furniture he selected for his room 
 amounted to seventeen dollars. "If I am 
 successful in the practice of the law, I hope 
 I can pay you by Christmas," said he, to 
 which Speed replied: "you don't have to 
 pay me until you are ready; but how would 
 you like to go up-stairs and share my room 
 and double bed?" Lincoln returned in a 
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 few minutes: "Speed, I have moved in." 
 The two lived in that room until 1841. 
 
 His first law office was in the block 
 north. His partner was John T. Stuart, the 
 first president of the Illinois Watch Com- 
 pany. Stuart went to Congress. Lincoln 
 regularly divided the proceeds of the part- 
 nership, wrapping Stuart's in a paper, 
 marked "Stuart's half." It occupied a 
 place of security on a shelf, awaiting 
 Stuart's return or instructions. 
 
 Lincoln married Mary Todd in a pre- 
 tentious brick residence that stood on the 
 site where the State has erected a Centen- 
 
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 nial memorial to its admission to the 
 Union. The newly weds went to the Globe 
 Tavern where they lived almost two years 
 and recommended it to friends as a good 
 tavern "where board and room may be 
 had at four dollars a week." Their first 
 child was born in this old hostelry. 
 
 In 1844, Lincoln purchased, for fifteen 
 hundred dollars, the only property he 
 ever owned — a modest story and a half 
 cottage. 
 
 While he was on one of his journeys 
 over the circuit, Mrs. Lincoln renewed the 
 roof and made it a two-story house. 
 
 Returning, he pretended not to know 
 his own house; calling to a neighbor: "I 
 am Abe Lincoln; I'm looking for my house; 
 I thought it was over there; I think I must 
 be lost." 
 
 Lincoln enjoyed his home, played there 
 with his and his neighbor's children and, 
 at evening stretched himself full length 
 on the parlor floor with his head resting 
 upon an upturned chair to read. He was 
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 aroused one evening from this comfort to 
 answer a call at the door and told his visi- 
 tors: "I'll trot the women folks out." 
 
 Lincoln's second law partner was 
 Stephen T. Logan. His third was William 
 H. Herndon whom he joined in 1843. Ad- 
 dressing him affectionately as "Billy," he 
 said, as they started their career: "Billy, if 
 you trust me as much as I trust you, we 
 will have no difficulty." 
 
 Their office was within a few feet of the 
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 room which Lincoln and Speed had occu- 
 pied. On the day before his departure for 
 Washington, Lincoln visited the old office. 
 He lay upon a sofa. With his eyes to the 
 ceiling, he remarked: "I have come to 
 have a long talk with you. We have never 
 had a cross word during all these years." 
 As he went away, the creaking sign drew 
 his attention: "let it hang there undis- 
 turbed; give our clients to understand that 
 election to the presidency makes no 
 changes in the firm of Lincoln & Hern- 
 don." 
 
 It was raining and sleeting the morning 
 of February 11, 1861, when Lincoln, his 
 family and a few intimates boarded a spe- 
 cial train for Washington at the Wabash 
 station. To a small group of sad faces, 
 Lincoln spoke from the rear platform his 
 immortal farewell to Springfield: 
 
 ff My friends, no one not in my situation 
 
 can appreciate my feeling of sadness at 
 
 this parting. To this place, and the kindness 
 
 of these people, I owe everything. Here 1 
 
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 have lived a quarter of a century, and 
 have passed from a young to an old man. 
 Here my children have been born, and 
 one is buried. I now leave, not knowing 
 when or whether ever I may return, with 
 a task before me greater than that which 
 rested upon Washington. Without the 
 assistance of that Divine Being who ever 
 attended him I can not succeed. With that 
 assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, 
 who can go with me and remain with you, 
 and be everywhere for good, let us con- 
 fidently hope that all will yet be well. To 
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 His care commending you, as I hope in 
 your prayers you will commend me, I bid 
 you an affectionate farewell." 
 
 On the morning of the day of his as- 
 sassination, he rode with Mrs. Lincoln 
 through Washington, reflecting on the 
 end of the war and fixing the time when 
 they could "settle down once more in our 
 old Springfield home and end our lives 
 among the friends of our early da^s. I 
 wish it might he soon." 
 
 These touches are added to the picture 
 to throw into high light his affection for 
 the little house, and the city in which he 
 lived the momentous formative twenty- 
 five years of his life. 
 
 It has been said that Lincoln acquired 
 much of his broad knowledge of men and 
 of political affairs by his association with 
 The Sangamo Journal in whose office he 
 read the exchanges, kept in touch with 
 politics the country over and wrote edi- 
 torials for his friend, Simeon Francis, from 
 whom he acquired polish and a social 
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 standing. Here lie read>the telegram an- 
 nouncing his nomination and observed 
 that he would better "tell the little woman 
 down the street the news." 
 
 Only a few feet from the spot where he 
 stopped on the day he reached Springfield 
 to inake it his home stood the new capitol 
 of Illinois. In its Hall of Representatives, 
 Lincoln was nominated by the Republic- 
 ans, on June 16, 1858, to the United 
 States senate against Stephen A. Douglas. 
 Accepting the honor he made the cele- 
 brated "House Divided Against It6elf" 
 speech. The historian, A. C. McLaughlin 
 says of it: "with the exception of the 
 Gettysburg address, it was Lincoln's most 
 famous speech." 
 
 From his nomination to the presidency 
 to his departure for the inauguration, Lin- 
 coln's headquarters were the Governor's 
 room in this building. Adjoining his 
 office was that of Newton Bateman, Super- 
 intendent of Public Instruction, and 
 one of the pioneers in developing the 
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 State's common school system. In this 
 room Lincoln met citizens and delega- 
 tions, artists, newspaper men and political 
 leaders who came in great crowds from all 
 parts of the nation. 
 
 To Bateman he deplored the attitude of 
 Springfield's ministers who were known 
 to stand twenty against and only three 
 for his election. "God cared, humanity 
 cares," said he sadly to Bateman, "and if 
 they (the ministers) don't, they surely 
 have not read their Bibles aright." 
 
 After his election he slipped away for 
 an hour or two, as he could take them, to 
 a dark, dingy, unromantic, bare room on 
 the third floor of a store building, across 
 from the capitol and there penned his 
 wonderful first inaugural address, one of 
 the nation's greatest political and legal 
 documents that "will ever bear compari- 
 son with the efforts of Washington, Jeffer- 
 son and Adams." 
 
 In this capitol Governor Yates, over the 
 protests of powerful advisors, chose U. S. 
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 Grant to lead an Illinois regiment; Lin- 
 coln selected John Hay to be one of his 
 secretaries and started on his public ca- 
 reer one of America's most distinguished 
 diplomats and statesmen. In the hall 
 where his "House Divided Against Itself " 
 speech was delivered, Lincoln's body lay 
 in state, while seventy-five thousand peo- 
 ple passed before his open coffin. His fu- 
 neral train had arrived at the Chicago 
 & Alton station, an hour late, at nine 
 
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 o'clock on the morning of May 3, 1865. 
 After the funeral ceremonies his body 
 was placed in a vault in Oak Ridge ceme- 
 tery. It has been transferred a number of 
 times but now rests in the north crypt 
 of the impressive monument a bereaved 
 nation erected on a knoll in that ceme- 
 tery. Here come the people of all lands, 
 nearly one hundred thousand of them in 
 1923 and among them every distinguished 
 foreigner visiting in this country that year, 
 — Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Zangwill, 
 Haller, Paderewski, Nansen. 
 
 Of this city and this tomb Stephen S. 
 Wise, the eminent Jewish scholar said: 
 "surely there will be no dissenting from 
 my thought that the two chiefest and 
 holiest shrines of America are to be found 
 on the bank of the Potomac and within 
 this city of Illinois. . . . His tomb at 
 Springfield is no less sacred and precious 
 than the grave at Mt. Vernon, each a re- 
 vered shrine of the American People, 
 each a hallowed altar of humanity." 
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 1 HIS new watch is a thin model 12 size. 
 It is extremely high-grade and is sold in 
 green or white, solid gold and filled cases 
 of attractive design. 
 
 The experience of more than half a 
 century in making fine watches has en- 
 abled us to produce this new A. Lincoln — 
 
 ACORN MODEL. NO. L5. 14k FILLED GREEN OR WHITE 
 GOLD, INSIDE CAP CASE. TWO COLOR, GREEN AND SILVERED 
 ETCHED OR EMBOSSED RAISED FIGURED DIAL $75.00 
 
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 a timekeeper worthy of the name, because 
 of its satisfactory qualities and thorough 
 dependability. 
 
 The dials illustrated in this booklet are 
 but a few of those we are prepared to fur- 
 nish. The etched dials shown are distinc- 
 tively new and particularly attractive. 
 
 The A. Lincoln contains 19 selected 
 Ruby and Sapphire jewels and is adjusted 
 to five positions, temperature and isoch- 
 
 ronism. 
 
 BARRISTER MODEL. NO. L6. 14k SOLID GOLD CASE. FULL 
 CHASED BEZELS AND CENTER. SPECIAL ETCHED, LINED OR 
 BUTLER BACK. INSIDE CAP. STERLING SILVER HAND EN- 
 GRAVED DIAL WITH INLAID ENAMEL FIGURES $110.00 
 
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 It is a watch that any man should be 
 proud to own and can be had at prices 
 well within the reach of those desiring a 
 high-grade, up-to-date, attractive and de- 
 pendable timekeeper. 
 
 The A. Lincoln is an ideal watch for 
 presentation purposes, being regularly 
 furnished in handsome leather-lined dis- 
 play boxes. 
 
 We feel sure that the list of special 
 features enumerated below will be of in- 
 
 PTONEER MODEL. NO. L4. 14k FILLED. FULL CHASED 
 BEZELS AND CENTER. SPECIAL ETCHED LINED OR BUTLER 
 BACK. QUEEN CASE. EMBOSSED RAISED FIGURE DIAL. $75.00 
 
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 terest to those prospective customers who 
 desire to compare watch values. 
 
 19 Selected Ruby and Sapphire Jewels. 
 
 Adjusted to Five Positions, Tempera- 
 ture and Isochronism. 
 
 Double Roller Escapement. 
 
 Steel Escape Wheel. 
 
 Polished Beveled-arm Gold Center 
 Wheel. 
 
 Breguet Hairspring. 
 
 PIONEER MODEL. NO. Ll. 14K SOLID, GREEN OR WHITE 
 GOLD. FULL CHASED CENTER AND BEZELS. ATTRACTIVE 
 ETCHED LINED OR BUTLER BACK. QUEEN CASE. TWO 
 COLOR, GREEN AND WHITE GILDED NEW PROCESS ETCHED 
 DIAL AND ANCIENT ROMAN FIGURES IN RELIEF. ...$100.00 
 
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 Patent Regulator. 
 
 Concaved and Polished Winding 
 Wheels. 
 
 Recoil Safety Click. 
 
 Hardened Spring-tempered Compen- 
 sating Balance. 
 
 Illinois Motor Barrel. 
 
 MOVEMENT VIEW 
 SIDE VIEWS — BA8SINE AND CHASED CASE3 
 
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 MORE THAN 800 'WATCHES 
 ARE PRODUCED DAILY BY 
 1300 SKILLED SPECIALISTS. 
 THE OUTPUT IS CONFINED 
 EXCLUSIVELY TO HIGH- 
 GRADE MOVEMENTS IN WHICH 
 THE FINEST WORKMANSHIP 
 AND MATERIALS ARE USED. 
 THE FACTORY IS SITUATED IN 
 THE CENTER OF A 14-ACRE 
 PARK — CONDITIONS LENDING 
 THEMSELVES TO THE MAKING 
 OF THESE FAMOUS WATCHES. 
 
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