Person

Warren, Louis Austin

1885–1983

Contemporary Authors, via WWW, August 5, 2014 (Louis Austin Warren, 1885-1983; born April 23, 1885, Holden, MA; died June 21, 1983 in Fort Wayne, IN; Transylvania University, B.P.T., 1916; Larue County Herald, Hodgenville, KY, editor, 1918-1919; Lincoln National Life Foundation, and Louis A. Warren Library Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, director, 1928-1956, director emeritus, 1956-1983; lectured on Abraham Lincoln to over one million people, aside from television and radio appearances, 1928-1956; member of Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau, 1941-1953; member of advisory council, U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1958-1965; honorary member of Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1959; as director of the Lincoln National Life Foundation, Louis Austin Warren gathered the largest collection of books and pamphlets ever assembled about Abraham Lincoln - more than eight thousand volumes; he published the weekly bulletin Lincoln Lore, edited Lincoln Kinsman, and wrote several books on the president, including Lincoln: Parentage and Childhood, Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years, and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Declaration)