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Martin Sweeney
Lincoln’s Gift from Homer, New York
by, Jill Swenson
August 25, 2011

Retired teacher and native son of Homer, New York, Martin Sweeney has written a captivating account of three other native sons who played pivotal roles in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and the United States’ history. Just released from McFarland & Company is Lincoln’s Gift from Homer, New York: A Painter, an Editor and a Detective. The painter, Francis Carpenter, brushed “The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation… [Read More]

Filed Under: assassination, Auburn, Civil War, Eli Devoe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emancipation Proclamation, Finger Lakes, Francis Carpenter, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Homer, Lincoln, Lincoln's Gift from Homer New York, Martin Sweeney, New York, Underground Railroad, upstate New York, William Seward, William Stoddard
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