Lehmann, Julius

Born: 1825-XX-XX Germany

Died: 1885-04--05 Bloomington, Illinois

Flourished: Bloomington, Illinois

Alternate name: Lehman

Dr. Julius Lehmann, a physician, was born in Saxony and arrived in the United States via New York City in April 1851. He hired Abraham Lincoln in 1858 to be his lawyer in a slander lawsuit for which he was the plaintiff and won the case. Lehmann served as a secretary of the Uhland (German) Masonic Lodge, Benevolent Order, in 1863. He was his wife Elizabeth had eight children together.

New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010); U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 4, Bloomington, McLean County, IL, 13; U.S. Census Office, Ninth Census of the United States (1870), Bloomington, McLean County, IL, 343-44; Lehman v. Schroeder, 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), https://lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=136776; The Daily Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL), 5 September 1863, 4:6; The Weekly Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL), 10 April 1885, 6:5.