Membership certificate for Eldress Anna White in the Lincoln Farm Association, 1906.
August 1, 1906
Scope and content
Certificate dated August 1, 1906 for the enrollment of Eldress Anna White as an honorary member of the Lincoln Farm Association. Signatories at the bottom include Mark Twain, Ida Tarbell, and William Howard Taft.
Historical notes
The Lincoln Farm Association was formed in April of 1906 to ensure the preservation of Lincoln's birthplace as a national park. One of the association's trustees, Robert Collier, purchased the site and a log cabin believed to be the birthplace building, and the association raised funds to build a memorial building on the site. Everyone who contributed between .25 and $25 to the association received one of these certificates. In 1911 the memorial building was completed, and the Lincoln Farm Association turned over the site to the State of Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Park was established in 1916.
