Last post from Chapter 8. GEO. E. HUBBELL LINCOLN'S ASSOCIATE COUNSEL Associated with Abraham Lincoln in the bridge cases was George E. Hubbell of the Davenport bar.  He was engaged for several months in taking depositions in this vicinity and up and down the river, and this evidence was in Mr. Lincoln's possession when the cases came up for trial.  Mr. Hubbell tells of seeing Mr. Lincoln and his eldest son, then a boy, in a hotel at Dubuque, where Mr. Lincoln had journeyed on legal business.  The martyred president never visited Davenport, although that statement is often made.  The only presidents who have been in this city are Millard Fillmore, who accompanied the party on the first train over the Rock Island road and was given a hearty reception here, Theodore Roosevelt who spoke here during the McKinley campaign and president Taylor, who was met by a reception committee of British and Indians at Credit island in the war of 1812.  President Taft, while secretary of war, was one of a distinguished company entertained by the Tri-City Press club at a banquet at the Commercial club, and in 1900, Theodore Roosevelt also made Davenport a stopping place while on a campaigning tour in the west.  While attorney in the bridge cases Abraham Lincoln came to the bridge to study the location of draw pier and direction of currents.  He was within a few hundred feet of Davenport but did not cross the bridge. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L