Wilson, Douglas L., ed; Davis, Rodney O., ed. 'Register of Informants' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: history]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
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A cousin of WHH, James Herndon knew AL in New Salem, where he kept store briefly in 1832 with his brother J. Rowan Herndon. James Herndon later moved to Columbus in Adams County and still later to Quincy, working as a painter, butcher, and harnessmaker. (Reep, 117; Federal Census, Adams County, 1850, 1860; Quincy; letter from Wayne Temple, September 6, 1994)