Excerpt from The Lincoln Centennial Association, Springfield, Ill: Its Objects, What It Has Accomplished, What It Hopes to Accomplish
It was not difficult to convince the members of the Illinois legislature that the state Should be one of the factors in the centennial anniversary; and so in October, 1907, the House and Senate adopted a joint resolution authorizing the Governor to appoint a Commission of fifteen representative citizens to have charge of all arrange ments for a fitting and proper celebra tion of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the greatest of all American statesmen.
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