Images of Lincoln:

1861 Oil by Charles Wesley Jarvis

1858

1863

Lincoln was a friend of Hiram Rutherford and chances are that he had been to Oakland before being elected president of the United States. I am sure he at least had a meal in the Rutherford home if he didn't spend the night there sometime, we just can't prove it.

Dr Rutherford attempted to hire Lincoln for the Matson Slave Trial and got rather upset with him when he found out he had already been hired by the other side. By the time Lincoln got out of his obligations to the Matson side of the case, Hiram had already hired a another lawyer and turned down Lincoln's offer to take his case.