Kirby, Eliab B.

Born: 1818-XX-XX Connecticut

Flourished: 1841-1850 Scott County, Illinois

Whig Party member from Scott County, Illinois. Kirby was deputy clerk of the Scott County Circuit Court in 1841 and clerk in 1842-44. In 1850, he was a merchant living in a boarding house in Winchester, Illinois.

Proceedings of Whig Convention at Pekin, Illinois regarding Candidates for Congress; Pettit v. Morgan, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), page http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=135787; Morgan v. Griffin, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=135784; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Scott County, IL, 4.