Archibald Williams (judge)

1. "Williams, Archibald – Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
2. Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois (Chicago, IL: 1901), p. 590. Also see William H. Collins and Cicero F. Perry, Past and Present of the City of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois (Chicago, IL: 1905), p. 272. Also see History of Adams County (Chicago, IL: Murray, Williamson, and Phelps, 1879), p. 415.
3. Letter, Archibald Williams to Henry Asbury, December 27, 1839, Henry Asbury File, Quincy Historical Society, Quincy, Illinois.
4. Quincy (Illinois) Whig, October 29, 1850; February 4, 1851; and September 18, 1852; quoted in Dennis J. Thavenet, "William Alexander Richardson, 1811-1875," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1967, p. 118, 129.
5. "Death of Judge Williams," Quincy (Illinois) Whig, included in "Death of Hon. Archibald Williams," Quincy (Illinois) Herald, Volume XXX, Number 4, September 28, 1863.
6. David G. Taylor, "Thomas Ewing, Jr., and the Origins of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company," Kansas Historical Quarterly, Summer 1976 (Volume 42, No. 2), p. 155-179.
7. "Order for Issue of Bonds for Use of Delaware Indians," June 10, 1861, in Roy P. Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: 1953), Volume IV, p. 400-402. Also see Abraham Lincoln to Orville Browning, Washington, July 20, 1861, in Roy P. Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: 1953), Volume IV, p. 455
8. Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, April 16, 1863, in Roy P. Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: 1953), Volume VI.
9. Theodore C. Pease and James G. Randall, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning (Springfield, IL: 1925 and 1933), Volume I, p. 547.
10. Carl Landrum, "From Quincy's past: Archibald Williams, early lawyer," Quincy (Illinois) Herald-Whig, December 5, 1971.
11. Paul Simon, Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965), p. 54. Also see Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years – One Volume Edition (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1954), p. 51.
12. Quincy (Illinois) Whig, December 14, 1839, quoted in Earl Schenck Myers, Ed., Lincoln Day by Day – A Chronology, 1809–1865 (Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1991).
13. Website: MrLincolnAndFriends.org., click on Politicians, click on Archibald Williams.
14. Sangamo Journal, January 23, 1845, quoted in Maurice J. Baxter, Orville H. Browning: Lincoln's Friend and Critic (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1957) p. 66-67.
15. "Valuable Lincoln Letter Treasured by Quincyan; Was Written to Judge Archibald Williams in 1848; Mrs. Walter D. Franklin Prizes Highly Note Written by Emancipator," Quincy (Illinois) Herald-Whig, February 20, 1947.
16. Norma Lorene Johnston, "Lincoln's Relationships with Four Quincy Republicans," Masters Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1955, p. 23.
17. Abraham Lincoln to John M. Clayton, March 8, 1849, in Roy P. Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: 1953), Volume 2, p. 39.
18. B. H. Roberts, History of the Church (Latter-Day Saints), Volume 4, p. 367.
19. Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill, Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1975), p. 182.
20. "Public Meeting," unidentified newspaper article in Special Collections, Brigham Young University Library.
21. David F. Wilcox and Lyman McCarl, Quincy and Adams County: History and Representative Men (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1919), p. 206.
22. "Hon. Archibald Williams, Quincy," in United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery (Chicago, IL: American Biographical Publishing Company, 1876), Illinois Volume, p. 152.
23. Arthur Charles Cole, "Introduction," in Arthur Charles Cole, Ed., The Constitutional Debates of 1847 (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1919), p. xviii.
24. Arthur Charles Cole, Ed., The Constitutional Debates of 1847 (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1919), p. 501-505
25. "Anti-Nebraska: A Whig Ticket That Is Quite A Curiosity In Its Way," Quincy (Illinois) Herald, February 1, 1893, p. 2.
26. Dennis J. Thavenet, "William Alexander Richardson, 1811-1875," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1967, p. 152.
27. Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates, October 30, 1854, in Roy P. Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: 1953), Volume II, p. 284. Also see Quincy (Illinois) Whig, November 3, 1854.
28. Abraham Lincoln to Orville Browning, November 12, 1854, in Roy P. Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: 1953, Volume II, p. 293-294.
29. Abraham Lincoln to Owen Lovejoy, August 11, 1855, in Roy P. Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: 1953) Volume II, p. 316-317.
30. Victor B. Howard, "The Illinois Republican Party, Part II, The Party Becomes Conservative, 1855-1856," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Autumn, 1871, p. 290-291. Also see Quincy (Illinois) Whig, July 28, 1855, and Quincy (Illinois) Herald,, August 6, 1855, p. 2.
31. Wright v. Mattison, 59 US 50(1855).
32. Theodore C. Pease and James G. Randall, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925 and 1933), Volume I, p. 211-212. Also see Maurice G. Baxter, Orville H. Browning: Lincoln's Friend and Critic (Bloomington, IN: Bloomington University Press, 1957), p. 54-55.
33. Theodore C. Pease and James G. Randall, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925 and 1933), Volume I, p. 238. Also see Harry E. Pratt, Lincoln – 1840 to 1846: Day-by-Day Activities (Springfield, IL: 1939), p. 204, 234.
34. Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln 1809–1858 (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928), Volume II, p. 364. Beveridge cites as his source, Whitney, Lincoln, Volume I, p. 259.
35. Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1926), Volume II, p. 25–30.
36. Theodore C. Pease, "Introduction," Theodore C. Pease and James G. Randall, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925 and 1933), Volume I, p. xvii. Also see Victor B. Howard, "The Illinois Republican Party, Part II, The Party Becomes More Conservative, 1855–1856," Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society, Autumn, 1871, p. 306.
37. Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years – One Volume Edition (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1954), p. 137.
38. Roy P. Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: 1953), Volume III, p. 7, 109, 174
39. Quincy (Illinois) Whig and Republican, October 11, 1858.
40. Charles S. Zane, "A Young Lawyer's Memories of Lincoln," found in Rufus Rockwell Wilson, editor, Lincoln Among His Friends: A Sheaf of Intimate Memories, p. 134.
41. "Lincoln Autographed Debates: The Archibald Williams Copy," in "Lincoln Lore," Illinois History Journal, August 1979, p. 4.
42. Henry Asbury to K. K. Jones, Quincy, Illinois, October 2, 1882, letter at Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Illinois.
43. Arthur Charles Cole, Ed., Constitutional Debates of 1847 (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1919), p. 982. Also see David F. Wilcox and Lyman McCarl, Quincy and Adams County: History and Representative Men (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1919), p. 158. Also see William H. Collins and Cicero F. Perry, Past and Present of Quincy and Adams County (Chicago, IL: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1905), p. 272–273. Also see History of Adams County (Chicago, IL: Murray, Williamson and Phelps, 1879), p. 415.
44. Carl Landrum, "From Quincy's Past: Archibald Williams, Early Lawyer," Quincy, (Illinois) Herald-Whig, December 5, 1971. Also see "Monument of Archibald Williams," Quincy (Illinois) Herald-Whig, August 26, 1965, typewritten copy by Father Landry, Archibald Williams file, Brenner Library, Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois, hand-numbered page 78.
45. Theodore C. Pease and James G. Randall, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925 and 1933), Volume I, p. 133.

Sources

• "Williams, Archibald - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
• Robert D. and Walton T. Loevy, "Archibald Williams: A Friend of Abraham Lincoln," unpublished manuscript (public domain), Brenner Library, Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois. Copies also at Historical Society of Quincy, Illinois, and Adams County; the Quincy, Illinois, Public Library; and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois.
• Norma Lorene Johnston, "Lincoln's Relationships with Four Quincy Republicans," Masters Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1955.
• Maurice G. Baxter, Orville H. Browning: Lincoln's Friend and Critic (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1957).
• Theodore C. Pease and James G. Randall, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925 and 1933), Volumes I–II.
• Earl Schenck Myers, Ed., Lincoln Day by Day – A Chronology, 1809–1865 (Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1991).
• Roy P. Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield. IL: 1953), Volumes I–VI.
• Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill, Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1975).
• Arthur Charles Cole, Ed., The Constitutional Debates of 1847 (Springfield, IL: Illinois Historical Library, 1919).
• Dennis J. Thavenet, "William Alexander Richardson, 1811–1875," PhD. dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1967.
• Paul Simon, Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965).
• Mr. Lincoln and Friends(https://www.MrLincolnAndFriends.org), click on Politicians, click on Archibald Williams.
• Archibald Williams Family of Quincy, Illinois (http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~bloevy/WilliamsFamilyQuincy)
• Archibald Williams: A Friend of Abraham Lincoln
• (http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~bloevy/ArchibaldWilliamsBook)

Archibald Williams
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas
In office March 12, 1861 –September 21, 1863

Legal offices
Preceded by Seat established by 12 Stat. 126	Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas 1861–1863	Succeeded by Mark W. Delahay