Logan County IL Archives News.....Lincoln Beat His Jumping 1921
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Journal Of IL State Historical Society, Vol 14 1921
J. J. Russell, 92, of Lincoln, Ill., who used to hop, step, and jump with 
Abraham Lincoln (although he was twenty-years younger than Mr. Lincoln) has 
recently celebrated his fiftieth wedding anniversary with Angeline Aldenderfer 
Russell, 88. When Lincoln traveled the Eighth Judicial Circuit from 1839 to 
1857, he stopped at the Deskins tavern, across from the frame court house 
where he practiced law. The old Court House is still standing. A block to the 
west the young men of the town would gather to pitch horseshoes, hurl the 
maul, and for wrestling and jumping. "I always beat Abe in the hop, step and 
jump," Russell says, "but he beat me in the broad jump. His legs were too long 
for me.'' This town was early known as Postville, having been laid out by 
Russell Post in 1835. Lincoln is a mile from the former town of the Kickapoo 
Indian Nation, on the banks of Salt Creek. The first whites came in 1819.

Additional Comments:
Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Published Quarterly 
by the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April-
July, 1921 No. 1-2.

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