What is "sangamon"

Usage examples of "sangamon".

Smirnoff went to her and said, 'Hey, I'm putting a group together, a direct-action group, more hardhitting than GEE, and Sangamon Taylor is working with me.

Neither the guy in the moon suit nor the diver ever showed his face, so they didn't know which one was Sangamon Taylor.

You want me, noted eco-asshole Sangamon Taylor, to come out and say that your PCB-eating bug is a good thing.

It seemed that I, Sangamon Taylor, was a man with deep-seated psychological problems.

A steamboat had arrived at New Salem from Cincinnati, and Lincoln was hired as an assistant in piloting the vessel through the uncertain channel of the Sangamon river to the Illinois river.

Lincoln insisted to the owners of the dam that under the Federal Constitution and laws no one had a right to dam up or obstruct a navigable stream and as he had already proved that the Sangamon was navigable a portion of the dam was torn away and the boat passed safely through.

Lincoln enlisted in the company from Sangamon county and was elected captain.

Weir, a former resident of Sangamon county, he had driven out from Springfield in company with a political opponent to engage in joint debate.

Her scream penetrated to the living room of the little thatched bungalow where the Reverend Sangamon Morton sat before a table, an open tin box before him and a sheaf of preferred stock certificates in his hands.

Coming out of the jungle were strange black men, it was true - warriors armed with spears, and even guns - but with them marched two white men, and at the sight of the pith helmets and the smoke from two briar pipes a broad smile touched the lips of the Reverend Sangamon Morton.

The Reverend Sangamon Morton fell, pierced through the breast by a heavy war spear before ever he could fire a shot in defense of his loved ones.

When Lincoln married, he had moved into the ruling class of not only Springfield and Illinois but of Lexington and Kentucky, leaving Herndon behind with the sort of people that Lincoln had originally represented as a Whig legislator from Sangamon county, the scrubs.

Upon the same rule, why might I not fly from the decision against me at Sangamon and get up instructions to their delegates to go for me.

They proceeded down the Sangamon in a canoe to Jamestown (then known as Judy’s Ferry), five miles east of Springfield.

Well, I'll make a nice committeeman, settin' the barbecue on a day with half of the Dimocratic party of Sangamon county can't ate a bite of mate.