Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Illinois” in chapter 5, page 71 of William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik:
...ew books obtainable, and continued the practice of extemporaneous speaking to the usual audience of undemonstrative stumps and voiceless trees.
His first attempt at public speaking after landing in Illinois is thus described to me by John Hanks, whose language I incorporate: After Abe got to Decatur, or rather to Macon county, a man by the name of Posey came into our neighborhood and made a speech.
It...
| Max. Freq. | Min. Freq. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
| † | Illinois (Illinois, United States) | 6,200 | 258 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| Illinois (New Mexico, United States) | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Illinois (Oregon, United States) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Illinois (Colorado, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| † | Illinois (Illinois, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| Illinois (New Mexico, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.