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Autograph book covering 45 years of presidents goes on auction block

Elizabeth Burrell holds her family’s autograph book open to the page containing the signatures of President Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. [AMY MCCRAW/Hendersonville Lightning]

By Amy McCraw, Special to the Lightning, Published: August 17, 2024

The end of the Civil War was still more than a year away when Jerome B. Diver, a paymaster in Abraham Lincoln’s administration, found a way to get his new autograph book in front of the president and his wife.

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