Wait Talcott Handwritten Signed Letters Anti-Slavery Senator IRS Lincoln 1844

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This listing is for two original signed handwritten letters by Deacon Wait Talcott (1807-1890), one of which is dated July 24, 1844.
Below are several excerpts from a section of an online article about the Talcott family that pertains to him.
"As a highly involved deacon of his Presbyterian church in Horseheads, N.Y., the title “Deacon” stayed with Wait after he joined the church his family founded in Rockton. In 1844, he enthusiastically led his congregation to pass resolutions declaring slavery to be “a great sin in the eyes of God” and banning slaveholders from attending services."
"Wait was elected to the Illinois senate in 1854 and worked to secure railroad lines for the Rockton/Rockford area. At the Illinois statehouse, he befriended Abraham Lincoln, a rising star in the new Republican Party and an 1855 candidate for the U.S. Senate."
"Upon passage of the Internal Revenue Act in 1862, President Lincoln appointed Wait as a commissioner for the Second Congressional District of Illinois."
"When the Civil War began in 1861, Wait Talcott was too old to serve. He paid a bounty to Charles H. Redington to represent him in the war. Redington served in the 45th Illinois Cavalry and was among the men who pursued and captured John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln’s assassination."
"Wait was an original incorporator of Beloit College and Rockford Female Seminary (now Rockford University)."
The article can be viewed in its entirety at http://oldnorthwestterritory.northwestquarterly.com/2020/09/10/the-talcott-family-pioneers-captains-of-industry/.
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