Lincoln tried a fifth time with a new general on January 25, 1863 — Maj.

* William " Duff " Armstrong, accused murderer of James Preston Metzker, was tried in Beardstown and successfully defended by Abraham Lincoln.

" In the spring of 1827, Abraham Lincoln was tried for operating a ferry across the Ohio River without a license.

The case-' The Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Abraham Lincoln ' - was tried in the east room of the log house before Squire Pate, the presiding Justice of the Peace for the County.

Following his death as Henry III tried to bring order to the country the mercenary Robert de Gaugy refused to yield Newark Castle to the Bishop of Lincoln, its rightful owner, leading to the Dauphin of France ( later King Louis VIII of France ) laying an eight day siege on behalf of the king, ended by an agreement to pay the mercenary to leave.

He also tried to pressure Lincoln by repeatedly threatening resignation, which he knew would cause Lincoln difficulties with the Radical Republicans.

Early in his presidency, Abraham Lincoln tried repeatedly to arrange resettlement of the kind the ACS supported, but each arrangement failed ; see Abraham Lincoln on slavery.

Douglas tried to convince, especially the Democrats, that Lincoln was an abolitionist for saying that the American Declaration of Independence applied to blacks as well as whites.

At Alton Lincoln tried to reconcile his statements on equality.

The so-called Lincoln conspirators were also tried by military commission in the spring and summer of 1865.

The company tried to position the cars as a prestige marque that would rival Cadillac and Lincoln.

Valentine once tried to get Mayer to move to Lincoln to play guitar for the Lincoln blues rock band Baby Jason and the Spankers.

When Numa pictures tried to contract Elmo Lincoln for another film about the apeman, he declined, so one of the Weiss brothers, while on a visit to New York, signed Pohler to a contract to star in The Return of Tarzan, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs ' novel The Return of Tarzan, and also changed his name to Gene Pollar.

Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the majority decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which stated that slavery could not legally be excluded from U. S. territories ( since Douglas professed great respect for Supreme Court decisions, and accused the Republicans of disrespecting the court, yet this aspect of the Dred Scott decision was contrary to Douglas ' views and politically unpopular in Illinois ).

Prior to Bloet's consecration, the Archbishop of York, Thomas of Bayeux, who had previously had a claim to supervise the see of Lincoln, tried to prevent the Archbishop Anselm's consecrating Bloet.

There are no known instances in which Lincoln tried to suppress knowledge or discussion of such arrangements, and in some conversations, raised the subject himself.

Brewer tried farming as a profession, and he bought a farm in Lincoln County with this in mind.

A prankster President Abraham Lincoln portrayed in Young Mr. Lincoln by Henry Fonda used a variation of this genre, explaining why he tried to be so honest, was due to his being wary of joining the ranks of a law firm " Ketchem, Cheatham & Howe ".

At the close of the war, Howe served in the honor guard that stood watch over the corpse of Abraham Lincoln, and soon afterward was appointed as a member of the military commission that tried the Lincoln conspirators.

Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.

* Lincoln ( automobile ), a company founded in 1917 to build aero engines and now a luxury car brand of Ford Motor Company

The reality was that the Lincoln Park Board had worked to fill in the shoreline in that area, allowing them to build Lake Shore Drive on the infill.

At first they had to consider other names, such as " The Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway " or " The Ocean-to-Ocean Highway ," because the Lincoln Highway name had been reserved earlier by a group of Easterners who were seeking support to build their Lincoln Highway from Washington to Gettysburg on federal funds.

" The first goal of the LHA was to build the rock highway from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco.

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.

Being close to both Omaha and Lincoln has made it an excellent location for more wealthy urbanites to build homes in the country.

It was reputedly used by the Danes when they invaded England and by the Normans to carry stone to build Lincoln Cathedral in the 11th century.

It was only with the development of Lincoln Center that the Met was able to build itself a new home.

Rotherham built part of Lincoln College, Oxford University and increased its endowment ; at Cambridge, where he was four times Chancellor and Master of Pembroke Hall, he helped to build the University Library.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

In 1897, Bacon was also approached by a group which was organized with the intent to raise public and private funds to build a monument in Washington, DC to memorialize Abraham Lincoln.

In a charter generally thought to date to 1135, King Henry I granted the Bishop of Lincoln permission to build a castle.

A popular children's toy in the US is Lincoln Logs, consisting of various notched dowel rods that can be fitted together to build scale miniature-sized structures.

Lincoln Logs is the name of a children's toy consisting of notched miniature logs, used to build miniature forts and buildings.

The 21-year-old Lincoln helped build a 16 foot by 16 foot ( 4. 8 m by 4. 8 m ) cabin along the river.

The leading civilian organization was the United States Sanitary Commission which had secured permission from President Lincoln in the summer of 1861 to deliver medical supplies to the battle front, to build adequate field hospitals staffed with volunteer nurses ( mostly women ), and to raise funds to support the commission ’ s programs.

In addition to his corporate interests, Chapin spearheaded the drive to build the Lincoln Highway, along with Henry B. Joy of Packard Motors.

The genuine Lincoln quotations may have been from an address on March 21, 1864 in which Lincoln said " Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another ; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

The Malton plant went on to build by war's end, a total of 3, 629 Avro aircraft: 3, 197 Ansons, 430 Mk X Lancasters ( including six Lancastrian transport conversions ), one Mk XV Lincoln heavy bomber, and a single York transport.

The Infrared Optical Telescope Array ( IOTA ) began with an agreement in 1988 among five Institutions, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Wyoming, and MIT / Lincoln Laboratory, to build a two-telescope stellar interferometer for the purpose of making fundamental astrophysical observations, and also as a prototype instrument on which we could perfect techniques which could later lead to the development of a larger, more powerful array.

They instructed him to build a complex that was the opposite of the Kennedy Center or Lincoln Center, and more like the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.