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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Roe was a physician and an early faculty member at Illinois Wesleyan University. Wounded in the Civil War, he returned to Bloomington in 1863, where he was elected circuit clerk in McLean County. (Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois)