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Willard C. (Willard Carey) MacNaul

b. 1864

Best known for a carefully documented study of Thomas Jefferson, James Lemen, and the fight against slavery in early Illinois, this early-20th-century writer worked close to the world of historical research rather than popular fiction.

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The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818

The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818

by Willard C. (Willard Carey) MacNaul

About the author

Willard Carey MacNaul, born in 1864, is chiefly remembered for The Jefferson-Lemen Compact, a work published by the Chicago Historical Society in 1915. The book explores the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen and argues for their importance in the exclusion of slavery from Illinois and the Northwest Territory.

Available catalog and library records consistently identify him as "Willard C. (Willard Carey) MacNaul" and link him with that historical study. LibriVox also notes that he was a member of the Chicago Historical Society, which fits the scholarly, document-based character of his best-known work.

Little biographical information appears to be readily available beyond those publication records, so his profile today rests mostly on that contribution to American historical writing.