Brookfield man served in Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet

John Palmer Usher sat with other dignitaries behind Lincoln as he gave the Gettysburg Address

By Matthew Urtz
Madison County Historian
Local News

As we mark the end of the sesquicentennial of the end of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, I am reminded that one of Lincoln’s Cabinet members, Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher, was born and raised in Madison...

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