Although Illinois enjoys the indisputable title of The Land of Lincoln, one small town in New York State played a significant role in the sixteenth president's history. Three native sons of Homer-a detective, a journalist, and a painter-helped inscribe Abraham Lincoln's place in the nation's iconic imagery. Private investigator Eli DeVoe foiled an assassination plot against Lincoln before his first inauguration; journalist William Osborn Stoddard, an early Lincoln supporter, became an influential secretary of the president; and artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter painted The First Reading of...