• Age: 81
• Interview Date: 5/7/2008
• Interviewer: Mark DePue, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
• Interview Length: 114 minutes Sit Down Interview
• County: Sangamon
• Michael Scully was born and grew up in London, England but his grandfather had a quarter of a million acres of land in the United States. Michael moved to the United States in 1939, where he now farms his own 400 acre farm while remaining a trustee of Scully Estates of roughly 100,000 acres and raising his own family.

William Scully, Grandfather and American Patriarch, who purchased almost 250,000 acres of land in Illinois and other state by t8: Photo from William Scully and the Scully Estates of Logan County, Illinois by Paul J. BeaverMichael Scully's Parents, Thomas and Violet Scully, taken in Courtley Manor, Chatenham, England, 1920sScully Family Portrait, 1960: (front)Thomas, Michael, and Nadine Scully; (seated) Violet, nanny Anna Lisa with John, Merida, nanny Brenda with Richard, (back) Watkin Lewis, Michael Scully, Peter Scully and his son David