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 brother of AL's friend James C. Conkling and a former resident of Springfield, Edgar Conkling was a successful manufacturer and railroad promoter in Cincinnati. (Charles Cist, Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati in 1851 [Cincinnati, 1851]; letter from Anne B. Shepherd, August 23, 1994)