Word: sangamon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...checks carried Hodge's facsimile signature; many had apparently been cashed fraudulently; e.g., Springfield Businessman Clarence J. Reuter pointed out that a $10,385 auditor's check supposedly signed by him was incorrectly endorsed "J. C. Reuter." Moreover, said George P. Coutrakon, state's attorney for Sangamon County (county seat: Springfield), many of the checks in question had been cashed in "suspicious circumstances" at Chicago's Southmoor Bank & Trust Co., which, as a state bank, was under Auditor Hodge's jurisdiction...
Across the Wide Ohio. The Central also was smart enough to spot an able lawyer in Sangamon County's Abe Lincoln. In 1855, for $10 each, he defended 15 claims against the railroad. The following year he won its most important case-a tax suit-and collected a $5,000 fee, the biggest he ever...