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SEVENTH PROGRESS UPDATE – OCTOBER 2014 THROUGH DECEMBER 2015 – PJ STAAB II

Mike Benjamin posing for the first time with no Jacob Bunn V pictured here, is checking up on
time to spare May 2, 2015 8am Springfield, Illinois.
the build progress in the Staab garage. Who
would know that PJ Staab would be the Uncle
by marriage to the namesake of Jacob Bunn.
Abraham Lincoln was not only a friend of
Jacob Bunn but his attorney as well. Jacob
Bunn also served as one of the honorary
pallbearers at the funeral for Lincoln in 1865.
As Tom Jones Sr. said, “it is a large world out
there until you get out into it.” Jacob Bunn V,
PJ’s nephew, is affectionately nicknamed Tad
after Abraham Lincoln’s son.

Abraham Lincoln, America’s Story by artist
Ray Simon original commissioned painting Jacob Bunn circa 1850’s.
is on display at the Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library & Museum. Ray Simon
conceptualized this painting in 2014. This
magnificent painting, through the guidance of
Ian Hunt and PJ Staab as well as Ray Simon’s
hundreds of hours, brought forth from a point
in time a new affirmation of our history.

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