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Jesse W. Fell (November 10, 1808 – February 25, 1887) was an American businessman and landowner. He was instrumental in the founding of Illinois State University as well as Normal, Pontiac, Clinton, Towanda, Dwight, DeWitt County and Livingston County in Central Illinois.
The Lawyers: Jesse W. Fell (1808-1887) Jesse W. Fell, who played a critical role at several junctures of Mr. Lincoln’s political suggested Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1854. Speaking to Mr. Lincoln just before Senator Stephen A. Douglas spoke in Bloomington, Mr. Lincoln maintained that Douglas would not cooperate in such a scheme.
14. Sept. 2010 · Contributor. Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection. Language. English. Caption title. Signed by Jesse W. Fell, Bloomington, Illinois, March 1872. Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography. Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography. A copy of Fell's statement of the circumstances under which the autobiography was written.
29 “Jesse W. Fell,” The Index, (1892). Perhaps one of Jesse Fell’s greatest contributions to McLean County was his role in bringing the Normal School (later named Illinois State Normal University) to the area.
The name of Jesse W. Fell, of Normal, Illinois, has become of more than local renown through its association with an autobiographical sketch of Abraham Lincoln, the writing of which Fell was the prime instigator.
- Harold K. Sage
- 1981
In December 1859, Abraham Lincoln drafted his first extensive autobiographical narrative, a roughly 600-word sketch prepared at the request of an old friend and Republican newspaper editor Jesse W. Fell, who was asking on behalf of a Republican newspaper from Chester County, Pennsylvania that was preparing a series of profiles on the leading con...
TABLEOFCONTENTS Chapter page I.EarlyYears,1808-1836 9-21 II.BusinessVenturesandHomeLife,1834-1856 2J-35 III.TheJournalist,1836-1858: 36-38 IV.FoundingtheNormalSchool,1853-1860 39-40
