Vespasian Warner Illinois House of Representative Cut Square Autograph

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Vespasian Warner Illinois House of Representative Cut Square Autograph
This came
in an incredible collection of ephemera, letters, bills of lading, autographs, etc.
Measures approx. 5
1/4" x 2 "
Vespasian Warner
(April 23, 1842 – March 31, 1925) was b
orn in Mount Pleasant (now Farmer City), De Witt County, Illinois and
attended the common and select schools in Clinton and Lombard University, Galesburg, Illinois.
He studied law in Clinton and enlisted as a private in
Company E, 12th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
June 13, 1861. He was promoted to sergeant
June 23, 1861,
second lieutenant
February 4, 1862,
captain and commissary
of subsistence February 10, 1865. He wasbrevetted
major March 13, 1865, and was mustered out July 13, 1866. He graduated from the law department at Harvard University
in 1868 and admitted to the bar
the same year.
Warner was elected
to the 54th
and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1905).
He died in Clinton, Illinois, on March 31, 1925. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery.