Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
"An address delivered before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society at the Second Presbyterian Church on the twenty-second day of February, 1842, by Abraham Lincoln."
Letters of Civil War soldier William Titus Rigby of the 24th Iowa Infantry Regiment, Company B. After the war he attended Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and graduated in 1869.
William Titus Rigby served in the Civil War as a second lieutenant in the 24th Iowa Infantry, Company B. Later he attained the rank of captain. He was involved in the Coldwater Expedition and the Vicksburg campaign. After the war he attended...