Abraham Lincoln & Bowling Green Berry

Abraham Lincoln & Bowling Green Berry store liquor license and bond.

To try to make some more money. Berry issued a license to Lincoln and himself in 1833. Neither of the signatures was in Lincoln's handwriting, however. Lincoln denied that he ever kept a grocery, and said that he never liked liquor or its effects. One historian claimed that "local tradition maintained that disagreement over the sale of liquor caused the dissolution of the Lincoln-Berry partnership soon after they obtained the liquor license."

Old document Lincoln Berry store liquor license from his store in New Salem