Chapter 9 cont. KNEW STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS Continuing in a desultory way, Captain Clark told of having lived under every president from James Monroe to William Howard Taft, and that he joined the Old Settlers' association when it was organized in 1858, and had never missed but two or three of its meetings.  "I knew quite a good deal of 'Abe' Lincoln, but never met him.  Stephen A Douglas I had met on more than one occasion.  He was a brilliant man.  I have no picture of my father - we didn't know much about pictures in those days - but my old acquaintances said that my father and Douglas were as nearly alike in appearance as two brothers could be.  I was running the Jennie Lind, one of my packet boats, and went to Burlington one time when a convention was to be held there.  On board my boat en route to the convention were John Wentworth, 'Long John,' of Chicago, Stephen A. Douglas, Congressman Richards from Adams county  General Jones and General A. C. Dodge.  I took them all down in my boat and they had a rally at Burlington the next night.  Here I might add that it was not  a common thing to lay over with a steamboat twelve hours to pick up noted men." 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