Lincoln's Connections to Western New York

By Alan V. Manchester - April 15, 2009

Abraham Lincoln only briefly passed through this area – once while campaigning and one in his funeral train – but a pair of his political allies, Clark Ezra Carr and Erastus D. Webster, called Western New York their home.

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