(05-18-2013, 09:00 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Hi Joe. In all honesty, I do not know. The person I had in mind is not Stephens, but I don't know if (or if not) Stephens was also boarding there. It's possible there are multiple answers to this question.
The added clue helped--Jacob Thomson--although I can find no source for his being at Spriggs Boarding House when Lincoln was in Congress--perhaps he lived there when he was in the Buchanan administration.