Hairpiece in county museum being returned to England
By Paul Wood
Friday February 1, 2008
Remember good ol' Abe Lincoln, trying cases in Urbana and Danville in that big white horsehair wig of his? Of course you don't. It's those Brits who have historically worn wigs in English courts. Lincoln wouldn't have been caught dead in one, even though he was once a member of the Whig Party.
So Champaign County's Early American Museum, located in Mahomet, doffed the wig it had displayed over the course of 40 years, once owned by a man named Beard, and sent it packing back across the pond.
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