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Eva Elisabeth · (This post was last modified: 03-28-2014 09:36 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)

I was astonished to read Lincoln should have been involved in a case in NY, so I tried to find out about that.

Despite Roger's info (and Canandaigua is not mentioned in Bernhardt Wall's book either), a look at Douglas' CV is IMO a further contra-argument:

Stephen Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1813. In 1830 his family moved to Canandaigua, NY. (Here we have Canandaigua, but he hadn't even begun to study law then.) He migrated to Winchester, Illinois, in 1833, where he first worked as a teacher, and studied law. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1834 (Lincoln in 1836).

Douglas was appointed as State's Attorney of Morgan County in 1834, serving until 1836. In 1836, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, and was appointed an associate justice of the Illinois Supreme Court in 1841. Then, from 1843-46, he served in the US House, and from 1847-61 in the Senate.

With both Lincoln and Douglas based in Illinois during their legal career and practice, is it likely they had been involved in a case in NY?