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Brian A. Williams; the Central Illinois Conference, United Methodist Church: Richard Chrisman; and the OfÇce of Congressman Lane Evans, 17th District of Illinois.
Some of our Knox College colleagues kindly answered our calls for help and provided much-needed expertise: Lance Factor, Mikiso Hane, Edward Niehus, Jorge Prats, Dennis Schneider, and Ross Vander Meulen. Such interdisciplinary collaboration is routine at Knox College, and it is one of the reasons why we have found it such a rewarding place to teach and work.
Paul Verduin has spent several years working through the maze of Hanks famÇily genealogy, and he has generously shared his Çndings with us. We are especially grateful that he agreed to permit a brief outline of the Hanks genealogy to appear as an appendix in this work. James Harvey Young helped us with some nineteenthÇcentury medical and pharmacological terminology. Michael Burlingame unselÇshly shared important materials that were of great beneÇt and supported the project in many ways. We are especially grateful to him and to our friends and fellow scholÇars Robert Bray, Robert Johannsen, Mark Plummer, and Terence A. Tanner for the advice and encouragement that they have provided.
Three organizations have provided Çnancial support in the form of subvenÇtions toward the costs of publication: the Abraham Lincoln Association, the IlliÇnois State Historical Society, and the New Salem Lincoln League. We are honored that the ofÇcers and members of these organizations chose to endorse our efforts in this unequivocal form, and we thank them for their vote of conÇdence.
We must acknowledge the genealogical help that has been tendered by diliÇgent and generous family historians across the country: Marilyn G. Ames, ChamÇpaign, Illinois; Janet H. Anderson, Houston, Texas; David Braswell, Belleville, Illinois; Lola G. Clark, Kilbourne, Illinois; Marie T. Eberle, Edwardsville, Illinois; Anna J. Foley, Greensburg, Indiana; Genevieve Goodpasture, Victoria, Texas; Phyllis Hodgen Hansen, SpringÇeld, Illinois; Barbara Hevron, Newburg, Indiana; Margaret Hohimer, SpringÇeld, Illinois; Mark D. Irwin, Belleville, Illinois; James
P. Jones, Raleigh, North Carolina; Eileen R. Keithley, Bath, Illinois; James Steven Miles, Chicago, Illinois; James E. Remer, Leawood, Kansas; Rosella H. Rogers, Petersburg, Illinois; George E. Ross, Sandoval, Illinois; Star W. Rowland, Sterling, Virginia; Mary McMillion Sauerhage, Mascoutah, Illinois; Wendy Saul, Baltimore, Maryland; Ora E. Strom, Medford, Oregon; Debbie Walker, Omaha, Nebraska; William Reese Walker, Hot Springs Village, Arkansas; Judith L. Weber, GreenÇeld, Iowa; Jean Stevens Wiggin, Palm Coast, Florida; Frances M. Winston, Las Vegas, Nevada; and Elfred W. Worms, Belleville, Illinois.
Finally, we are grateful to the staff of the University of Illinois Press and in particular to Richard L. Wentworth, director of the Press, and Theresa L. Sears, managing editor.
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