UP FOR AUCTION:

RARE Circa 1890s 

Original 14" x 9 1/4" Crystal Clear Photograph 

with the Darkest of Darks and the Lightest of Lights!

"Mayes (Portrait Studio) Bloomington, ILLS." Embossed Bottom Right Corner

Signed / Inscribed James Stevenson Ewing "Very truly, Jas. S. Ewing" 

Rare Signature as Ewing passed in 1918!

Minister to Belgium (1893 to 1897) / Friend of Abraham Lincoln / cousin of Adlai Stevenson I (Grover Cleveland's VP)

He studied law and late in the 1850s was admitted to Bloomington bar. He had in his early career the good fortune to meet and mingle with the great men of his own state; some of whom afterwards became distinguished not only in their own great country, but throughout the whole civilized world and whose names are spoken with reverence and respect in all languages and in every palace and hovel throughout the civilized world. Among these were David Davis, then on the circuit bench, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Judge Weldon and Colonel Stewart who were frequent visitors and practitioners at the Bloomington bar. He often spoke with pride of his acquaintanceship and association with these great men. He entertained great admiration both for Lincoln and for Douglas and believed them to be the greatest statesmen since the era of American Independence.

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