Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of the Martyred President: Abraham Lincoln

The following pages contain the address made by Dr. William Jayne to the Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association of Illinois, at the Public Hall of that Association in Chicago, February 12th, 1900, during the Annual Exercises held in honor and in recognition of the Birthday of

Abraham Lincoln

Dr. Jayne is a native and resident of Springfield, Illinois, and was a neighbor, political and social friend of Abraham Lincoln from 1836 until the latter's death in 1865.

The Doctor was educated at Illinois College, and is a member of the Phi Alpha Literary Society of that College. He was largely responsible for the delivery to this Society by Mr. Lincoln of the lecture to which he refers in these reminiscences.

He was elected a State Senator in the Springfield Senatorial District at the November election, 1860, becoming at that time a leading Republican, and has so continued until the present.

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