The following story appeared in Monday's Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
In honor of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, this photograph by Alexander Gardner,
titled “The Gettysburg Lincoln,” has been loaned by attorney William J. Kresse to the Chicago Bar Association. It will hang above the fireplace in the main entry hall through May 2009. The portrait is so called because it was taken November 8th, 1863, two weeks before Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. It is framed with Lincoln’s signature. Kresse, an associate professor at Saint Xavier University’s Graham School of Management, acquired the famous image at the 2008 Lend-A-Hand Awards Luncheon and silent auction. He is gratified that it hangs between the busts of Lincoln and Washington in the entry hall. They were bequeathed to the CBA by Kresse’s friend and mentor, Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, for whom Kresse served as law clerk. “Those are old friends,” he says of the busts.
In honor of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, this photograph by Alexander Gardner,
titled “The Gettysburg Lincoln,” has been loaned by attorney William J. Kresse to the Chicago Bar Association. It will hang above the fireplace in the main entry hall through May 2009. The portrait is so called because it was taken November 8th, 1863, two weeks before Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. It is framed with Lincoln’s signature. Kresse, an associate professor at Saint Xavier University’s Graham School of Management, acquired the famous image at the 2008 Lend-A-Hand Awards Luncheon and silent auction. He is gratified that it hangs between the busts of Lincoln and Washington in the entry hall. They were bequeathed to the CBA by Kresse’s friend and mentor, Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, for whom Kresse served as law clerk. “Those are old friends,” he says of the busts.
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