The committee for the November 19 Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg invited President Lincoln: " It is the desire that, after the Oration, you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks.

While the Pacific Railroad Act was to award the eastern contract to the newly formed Union Pacific, it was left up to then President Lincoln to formally choose the location for the railroad to start and Lincoln in 1862 was to follow the advice of his former client.

Conceived in 1912 and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway was America's first national memorial to President Abraham Lincoln, predating the 1922 dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. by nine years.

Merton College records in the 1290s call it Iftele and Yiftele ; it is Yeftley to the civil servants writing up the Domesday of Inclosures, in Latin, in 1517 – 18 ; Lincoln College accounts, written less formally and in English, have Ifley by 1543, and it is Iffley or Iflie during the Civil War 1642 – 46.

Geoffrey formally resigned the see of Lincoln on 6 January 1182, at Marlborough in England, rather than be ordained as Pope Lucius III had ordered.

Apparently, upon learning that Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee, Harris, while not resigning formally, ceased to make any real effort to function as governor, serving instead as a staff officer in the Confederate States Army, first for Albert Sidney Johnston and then for Joseph E. Johnston.

Florey formally recognised Abraham ’ s work in 1948 by nominating him to be one of the first three “ penicillin ” research Fellows at Lincoln College, Oxford.

On April 15, 1861, the day after the small U. S. Army garrison at Fort Sumter formally surrendered to Confederate forces, President Abraham Lincoln called for troops to suppress the rebellion.

Although the council was formally established in 1880 as the District Council of Lincoln, it wasn't until 1921 that the Municipality of Port Lincoln was officially proclaimed.

Illinois, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas and Minnesota are the only states to have elected formally independent candidates as governor: Illinois ' first two governors, Shadrach Bond and Edward Coles ; James B. Longley in 1974 as well as Angus King in 1994 and 1998 from Maine ; Lincoln Chafee in 2010 from Rhode Island ; Julius Meier in 1930 from Oregon ; and Sam Houston in 1859 from Texas.

She was formally invested as suo jure 1st Countess of Lincoln on 27 October 1232 the day after Ranulf's death.

They were formally invested by King Henry III as Countess and Earl of Lincoln on 23 November 1232.

He partnered with Stephen T. Logan from 1841 until 1844, when he began his practice with William Herndon, whom Lincoln thought " a studious young man ".

After leading in the first six rounds of voting in the Illinois assembly, his support began to dwindle, and Lincoln instructed his backers to vote for Lyman Trumbull, who defeated opponent Joel Aldrich Matteson.

Reconstruction began during the war, as Lincoln and his associates anticipated questions of how to reintegrate the conquered southern states, and how to determine the fates of Confederate leaders and freed slaves.

He began to formulate plans to kidnap Lincoln from his summer residence at the Old Soldiers Home, three miles ( 5 km ) from the White House, and to smuggle him across the Potomac River into Richmond.

The White House remained accessible in other ways ; President Abraham Lincoln complained that he was constantly beleaguered by job seekers waiting to ask him for political appointments or other favors, or eccentric dispensers of advice like “ General ” Daniel Pratt, as he began the business day.

On his southbound journey, the king began constructing castles at Lincoln, Huntingdon, and Cambridge.

Joseph McCarthy's involvement with the ongoing cultural phenomenon that would bear his name began with a speech he made on Lincoln Day, February 9, 1950, to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia.

) While Burnside began assembling a supply base at Falmouth, near Fredericksburg, the Lincoln administration entertained a lengthy debate about the wisdom of his plan, which differed from the president's preference of a movement south on the O & A and a direct confrontation with Lee's army instead of the movement focused on the city of Richmond.

On 15 June, King Henry began moving north east toward Newark after receiving news that Lincoln had crossed the Trent.

Rains began his career in the London theatre, having a success in the title role of John Drinkwater's play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow-up to the playwright's major hit Abraham Lincoln, and travelled to Broadway in the late 1920s to act in leading roles in such plays as Shaw's The Apple Cart and in the dramatisations of The Constant Nymph, and Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth, as a Chinese farmer.

* Remigius de Fécamp, Bishop of Lincoln ( 1072 – 92 ) — began the construction of Lincoln Cathedral, which was consecrated in 1092, two days after his death

In 1861, after the paper was purchased by Wilbur F. Storey, the Times began espousing the Copperhead point of view in supporting Southern Democrats and denounced the policies of Abraham Lincoln.

At the same time he began lecturing in theology, the Bishop of Lincoln appointed him Archdeacon of Leicester.

First planted in areas around Lincoln, Evansville, and Cane Hill in the 1830s, apple orchards began all across the county.

They began playing at the Lincoln Gardens, and Louis Armstrong also joined this outfit.

Track laying began that same year and the rails reached the site of Lincoln in early 1861.

In June 2002, the towns of Lincoln and Sudbury began a $ 74 million dollar project to build a new high school near the site of the original building.

and his five brothers carved the Lincoln Memorial, which they began in 1911 and completed in 1922.

The Eastern Oklahoma Railway ( acquired by Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1907 ) and the Fort Smith and Western Railroad ( FS & W ) established plans for a town at the junction of the two lines as they began surveying Lincoln County in 1902.

After both Denton and McKinney voted to allow alcoholic sales in their cities, Lincoln Park began to decline.

After the opening of the Lincoln Tunnel in 1937, the Inter-City Bus Company began bus service direct from Paterson to New York City.

George began as a Lincoln Republican, but then became a Democrat.

The time-sharing experiment began as a " half-page of code written out on a kitchen table " combined with a small multi-programming system, LLMPS from MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, which was modified and became the UM Multi-Programming Supervisor ( UMMPS ) which in turn ran the MTS job program.

At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness.

" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

Lincoln stated that his Louisiana plan did not apply to all states under Reconstruction.

Shortly before his assassination, Lincoln announced he had a new plan for southern Reconstruction.

Lincoln only vetoed four bills passed by Congress ; the only important one was the Wade-Davis Bill with its harsh program of Reconstruction.

In 1862, Lincoln appointed Johnson military governor of occupied Tennessee, where he was effective in fighting and ending the rebellion ; he implemented Reconstruction policies in the state and transitioned for a time to a pro-emancipation policy.

Lincoln had begun putting Reconstruction policies in place during the war, but Northern anger over his assassination and the losses of the war, led to demands for more severe policies toward the Southern states.

Seymour proposed a Reconstruction policy to emphasize peaceful reconciliation with the South, similar to that advocated by Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson.

President Lincoln was the leader of the moderate Republicans and wanted to speed up Reconstruction and reunite the nation painlessly and quickly.

Starting in March 1862, in an effort to forestall Reconstruction by the Radicals in Congress, President Lincoln installed military governors in certain rebellious states under Union military control.

In 1863, President Lincoln proposed a moderate plan for the Reconstruction of the captured Confederate State of Louisiana.

By December 1864, the Lincoln plan of Reconstruction had been enacted in Louisiana and the legislature sent two Senators and five Representatives to take their seats in Washington.

There is considerable debate on how well Lincoln, had he lived, would have handled Congress during the Reconstruction process that took place after the Civil War ended.

Johnson was following the moderate Lincoln Presidential Reconstruction policy to get the states readmitted as soon as possible.

Published just three years after the end of the American Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

After the Civil War in 1866, these tribes were forced to give up lands that included present-day Lincoln County in Reconstruction Treaties for siding with the Confederacy.

However, at the end of Reconstruction, the second " s " was quietly dropped and the designated honoree was changed to Stephen A. Douglas, an Illinois senator and the Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860 as evidenced by a historical marker about the creation of Douglas County:

The Radicals passed their own Reconstruction plan through Congress in 1864, but Lincoln vetoed it and was putting his own policies in effect when he was assassinated in 1865.

Lincoln later said that he didn't want to be held to one Reconstruction policy.

After the American Civil War during the Reconstruction Era of the United States 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson undertook policies designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans used Congress to block the president, impose harsh terms, and upgrade the rights of the Freedmen ( the ex-slaves ).

Ironically, and despite that era's Republican commitment to Reconstruction and black civil rights, all five Justices in the majority were appointed by Republicans ( three by Lincoln, two by Grant ), while the lone Democratic appointee Nathan Clifford dissented.

Military and Reconstruction issues were another matter, and Lincoln as the leader of the moderate and conservative factions of the Republican Party often crossed swords with the Radical Republicans, led by Stevens and Sumner.

Collamer opposed the Reconstruction Plan of President Abraham Lincoln, advocating congressional control instead.