- Potpourri - Janesville Sesquicentennial
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- [Photograph of Abe Lincoln.]
- [Photograph; caption reads: William Jennings Bryan drew a
large crowd here on Sept. 26, 1908. Bryan was running for president
against William Howard Taft.]
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- Lincoln, Grant, Truman all visited Janesville
- Abraham Lincoln. Ulysses S. Grant. William Jennings Bryan.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
- No, these people didn't live in Janesville, but they passed
through it.
- Lincoln was campaigning for president when he came here on
Oct. 1 and 2, 1859.
- He had been in the area to address the Beloit Republican
Club. William TALLMAN, a civic
- leader, and a local lawyer, Alfred Austustus JACKSON,
learned that Lincoln would be nearby and asked if he would address
the Janesville Republicans, which he agreed to do.
- Lincoln stayed the night at the TALLMAN House.
- The Duke and Duchess of Windsor went through Janesville en
route to their Canadian lodge in
- 1937.
- General Grant, who later became president, stayed at the
MYERS House in Janesville in the
- 1870s.
- The great orator and three-time presidential candidate William
Jennings Bryan visited here later in
- 1908.
- Gen. Phillip Sheridan purchased horses in the area in the
1860s.
- Rutherford Hayes, elected president in 1876, was here after
the end of his term.
- Grover Cleveland, the only man to be president for two non-consecutive
terms, was here in the
- 1880s. A crowd of 10,000 people reportedly cheered him as
he passed through on his way back to Washington.
- Harry Truman visited Janesville in 1946.
- Chester A. Arthur, who later became president, stayed at
the Hyatt House in 1857.
- Stephen A. Douglas, a political leader known for his debates
with Lincoln, spoke to a large crowd
- in front of the Hyatt House in 1860.
- General W. T. Sherman was a guest at the Wisconsin State
Fair, held here in 1865.
- And Dr. Frank Laubach, a pioneer of the development of techniques
to teach reading was a guest
- in the Russell and Ruth FRENCH home in Janesville
in 1966.
- The FRENCHes were caught up in this fervor, and Ruth
became the first president of the
- Janesville Literacy Council.
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