Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — He Roomed With Lincoln. [ARTICLE]

He Roomed With Lincoln.

Henry Brown, ninety-two, a roommate of Abraham Lincoln when the latter was practicing law, died recently, on his farm, near Bloomington, 111. His warm personal friendship with the martyred president continued all through the CiVil whr and a large number of personal letters ant various articles given him by Lincoln, were willed to the State Historical society for the museum at the Staig capitol.