William H Herndon Author

William H. Herndon (1818-1891) was Abraham Lincoln's law partner from 1844 until Lincoln became president in 1861. Jesse W. Weik (1857-1930) was an agent with the U.S. Pension Bureau and the primary writer of Herndon's Lincoln. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis are codirectors of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and the coeditors of Herndon's Informants, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, and The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.