Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . i^ „i^^ir^. RRAHAM LINCOLN, the sixteenth President of tlie,JUnited States, was horn inf? Hardin Co., Ky., Feh. 12,W 1809. Ahout tlie year 1780, aman hy the name of Abraham^^ Lincohi left Virginia with and moved into t)ie thenwildsof Kentucky, (^nly two yearsafter this emigration, st
Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . i^ „i^^ir^. RRAHAM LINCOLN, the sixteenth President of tlie,JUnited States, was horn inf? Hardin Co., Ky., Feh. 12,W 1809. Ahout tlie year 1780, aman hy the name of Abraham^^ Lincohi left Virginia with and moved into t)ie thenwildsof Kentucky, (^nly two yearsafter this emigration, still a youngman, while working one day in afield, was stealthily a])pro::ched hyan Indian andshot dead. His widowwas left in extreme poverty with fivelittle children, three 1)0)S and twogirls. Thomas, the youngest of theboys, was four years of age at hisfathers deatli. This Thomas wasthe father of .\braham Lincoln, thePresident of the United Stateswhone name must henceforth foi-ever be enrolledwiih the most prominent in the annals of our coarse no record has been kept of the lifeof one so lowly as Thomas Lincoln. He was amongthe ix)orest of the [xjor. His home was a wretchedlog-cabin; his food the coarsest and the he had none; he could never either reador write. A
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