ALPLM gifted rare ledger that sheds new light on Abraham Lincoln’s early life

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) – The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is giving history lovers an up-close look at a ledger offering a glimpse into Lincoln’s day-to-day life. It will be on display at ALPLM’s library building from Nov. 19 through the end of the year. Museum leaders said the document sheds light on Lincoln’s life shortly after becoming a lawyer and provides new information about the day he moved from New Salem to Springfield. “It’s incredibly rare to find new sources of information about Lincoln’s activities at this stage of his life. Scholars will be looking closely at this ledger to understand every detail,” said Ian Patrick Hunt, ALPLM’s head of acquisitions, in a statement. A family whose father bought a box of books containing the ledger for $2 at an auction gifted it to the museum. ALPLM said the ledger records transactions from September 1836 to September 1837 at a Petersburg store near Lincoln’s New Salem home. The new acquisition joins a collection of r