Abraham Lincoln and the Eighth Judicial Circuit

[RJNorton]

Thank you, Eva! And thanks again, Toia! Things make much more sense after seeing the outstanding research you folks did. Much appreciated!

It sounds like the men had a very interesting time. From
http://mrlincolnandfriends.org/inside.as...ubjectID=3

"Circuit life could be unpleasant. At one point the tavern in David Davis's home town of Bloomington was so dirty that Davis refused to stay there - asking instead that the court clerk put up him and Mr. Lincoln. In 1851, Davis complained that the "eating is poor" at Bailey's tavern in Urbana. But it also had its charms and life could also be "glorious fun" according to attorney Usher Linder, a fellow Kentucky native who sometimes served as a co-counsel with Mr. Lincoln. Although travel could be rigorous, reported Benjamin Thomas, many of "these trips were joyous and exhilarating. One lawyer remembered with pleasure the 'good company, the exhilaration of great speed, over an elastic road, much of it a turf of grass, often crushing under our wheels the most beautiful wild flowers, every grove fragrant with blossoms, framed in the richest green, our roads not fenced in by narrow lanes."