{"id":1197,"date":"2009-06-26T07:44:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T13:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2009-06-26T07:44:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T13:44:58","slug":"program-to-answer-if-lincoln-visited-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2009\/06\/26\/program-to-answer-if-lincoln-visited-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Program to answer if Lincoln visited Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE<br \/>\nJune 25, 2009<br \/>\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>\nContact: William Stolz (573) 882-0188<\/p>\n<p>Program to answer if Lincoln visited Columbia<br \/>\nBy The State Historical Society of Missouri\/ Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia<\/p>\n<p>COLUMBIA, MO\u2014Rumors that the 16th President of the United States came to town will be put to rest as William T. Stolz answers the question, \u201cDid Abraham Lincoln visit Columbia?\u201d in a presentation on Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. at the Walters-Boone County Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Todd Lincoln had relatives in Columbia during the early1860s, and this fact coupled with the President\u2019s documented travel to Missouri has given rise to reports that \u201cHonest Abe\u201d set foot in the Boone County community.  Is it true?  Stolz, assistant director of reference at Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia, will examine the local hearsay and what reality lies behind it as part of a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Lincoln\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Abraham Lincoln visit Columbia?\u201d is free and open to the public.  For more information, call the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia at (573) 882-6028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE June 25, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: William Stolz (573) 882-0188 Program to answer if Lincoln visited Columbia By The State Historical Society of Missouri\/ Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia COLUMBIA, MO\u2014Rumors that the 16th President of the United<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2009\/06\/26\/program-to-answer-if-lincoln-visited-columbia\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Program to answer if Lincoln visited Columbia<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-announcement"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 06:59:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}