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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After graduating from Yale and studying law, Pitcher traveled West, finally settling in southern Indiana, where he practiced law until after the Civil War. An itinerant lawyer, Pitcher practiced in Spencer County at the time AL lived there. (Statement of Kate Pitcher Whitworth, n.d., HW)