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Title: Abraham Lincoln's contemporaries
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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incalnmAore Bulletin of The Lincoln National Life Foundation . . . Dr. R. Gerald MeMurtry, EditorPublished each month by The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana Number 1475 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA January, 1961 SCHUYLER COLFAX—LINCOLN LECTURER Schuyler Colfax of South Bend, Indiana, is so wellknown in history as a Congressman, Speaker of theHouse, Vice President (U. S. Grants first term) and forhis implication in the Credit Mobilier scandal that fewstudents know of his activities as a professional lecturer. Colfax was a brilliant young man who showed greatpromise. Not only did he excell as a shrewd politicianbut he was an excellent speaker. On June 21, 1856 hemade a speech, of which more than a million copies were
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From the Lincoln National Life Foundation Collection SCHUYLER COLFAXMar. 23, 1823—Jan. 13, 1885Vice-president of the United States. Born in New YorkCity. His paternal grandfather, William Colfax, wascommander of Washingtons body-guard during theRevolutionary War. His maternal grandmother, HesterSchuyler, was a cousin of Gen. Philip Schuyler. Hisfather, Schuyler Colfax, who married (April 15, 1820)Hannah Stryker of New York, died Oct. 30, 1822 and in1834 his mother married George W. Matthews of Balti-more. In 1836 the family moved to New Carlisle, Ind.,where Matthews, who became Auditor of St. JosephCounty in 1841, appointed his stepson deputy auditor atSouth Bend, Indiana. This Indiana city was the place ofhis official residence the remainder of his life. His firstwife, Evelyn Clark of New York, whom he married Oct.10, 1844 died at Newport, R. I., July 10, 1863. On Nov.18, 1868, he married Ellen W. Wade, a niece of BenjaminF. Wade of Ohio. He died suddenly at Mankato, Minn.,and was

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