Herndon

American  

[hurn-duhn] / ˈhɜrn dən /

noun

1. William Henry, 1818–91, U.S. law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln.

2. a town in NE Virginia.

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Example Sentences

When William Herndon, Lincoln’s impatient law partner, bemoans the limited political opportunities frustrating younger partisans, Lincoln reminds him: “Do you suppose that I should ever have got into notice if I had waited to be hunted up and pushed forward by older men?”

From The Wall Street Journal

Herndon later described Lincoln’s ambition as “a little engine that knew no rest,” but, in Mr. Pinsker’s telling, his ambitions were as much organizational as personal.

From The Wall Street Journal

After more than a year out, Wilder, 40, returned in June with a low-key seventh-round stoppage of little-known Tyrrell Anthony Herndon.

From BBC

For more than 25 years, its lineup has been stable: drummer and producer John McEntire, percussionists John Herndon and Dan Bitney, bassist Doug McCombs and guitarist Jeff Parker.

From The Wall Street Journal

And as Herndon pointed out, “in time Lincoln’s style changed: he became more eloquent but with less gaudy ornamentation. He grew in oratorical power, dropping gradually the alliteration and rosy metaphor of youth.”

From The Wall Street Journal