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Surviving records from Eighth Circuit courthouses such as Metamora show that Lincoln and his colleagues practiced general, unspecialized law. They served as criminal defense counsel, handled divorce and family-law cases, oversaw the passage of estates through probate , and were available to handle a wide variety of civil suits and disputes.
Metamora was the county seat of Woodford County from 1843 until 1896. The Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site, a courthouse from this period, is preserved as an Illinois state historic site. Future President Abraham Lincoln and future Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I practiced law there. [citation needed]
The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
This is the third installment in a three-part series on the history of Wayne County's courthouses. The red brick Federal-style courthouse in Wayne County's seat of Honesdale is a landmark opposite ...
A much larger, Federal-style, wooden courthouse was opened in 1817 on Bethany’s square. County officials, however, needed to better protect records, and in 1823 a brick structure was built in ...
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
It was only in 1894 when a final election provided a decisive majority in favor of moving the county seat to Eureka that Metamora lost its status as county seat. [26] An impressive new courthouse building was quickly constructed in Eureka, cementing that town's status as legal and governmental center of Woodford County.
During his arrest, the suspect also allegedly claimed that the government had taken his guns and yelled for people to “fight, rise up and rebel.”