Lincoln a Well Paid Corporate Lawyer in His Hey Day
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL › February 23, 2009
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A cherished image of Abraham Lincoln has him on horseback, law books and legal papers in saddle, crossing a stretch of unbroken Central Illinois prairie from one county seat to another. Yet by the 1850s and the railroad boom, the era represented in this pastoral scene was coming to a quick end.
Railroads changed everything. Lawyers, for instance, abandoned the horse and buggy for the steam engine, and they began corresponding using the telegraph. As for Lincoln, he began defending the interests of railroad companies, especially the mighty Illinois Central. By the mid-1850s, far from being the homespun, aw- shucks attorney remembered from our elementary school days, Lincoln was one of the most respected - and best paid - corporate lawyers in the state.See the full content of this document
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Lincoln a Well Paid Corporate Lawyer in His Hey Day
Today, it's hard for us to fathom what the railroads wrought. They represented the largest accumulations of capital and revolutionary industrial might ever encountered by most Americans. The Illi...
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