Statistics for occurrence #1 of “James Rutledge” in chapter 7, page 129 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:

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Rutledge was the saddest chapter in Mr. Lincoln's life. James Rutledge , the father of this interesting girl, was one of the founders of New Salem, having come there from Kentucky in 1829. He was born in South Carolina and belonged to the noted Rutledge family of that ...
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