. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . iversal attention,from the old and sedate downto the school-boy. Thenin a few moments he wasas calm and thoughtful as ajudge on the bench, and as ready to give advice on the most important matters:fun and gravity grew on him alike. Lincoln at this time fell very deeply in love with a beautiful young girl—Ann Rutledge, a daughter of James Rutledge, one of the founders of New Salem,and having the blood of a Revolutio
. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . iversal attention,from the old and sedate downto the school-boy. Thenin a few moments he wasas calm and thoughtful as ajudge on the bench, and as ready to give advice on the most important matters:fun and gravity grew on him alike. Lincoln at this time fell very deeply in love with a beautiful young girl—Ann Rutledge, a daughter of James Rutledge, one of the founders of New Salem,and having the blood of a Revolutionary soldier in his veins. She is described asbeing a blonde, with golden hair, lips as red as a cherry, a cheek like a wildrose, with blue eyes, and as sweet and gentle in manners and temper as attractivein person. This young lady was all the more interesting for having sufferedalready in a love affair, a long account of which is given by Lincolns old Herndon. She and a worthy young man—John McNeil, who had notlong before come to New Salem from an eastern state—became very deeplyattached to each other. McNeils partner in a store, Samuel Hill, also became. BOWLINi; Hlll^l This cabin was located half a mile north of New Salem,where It still stands, used for an old stable. Lincolnbegan studying law while a boarder in this cabin. He wasstretched out on the floor reading when he first met Dick Yates, then a college student home on a vacation,and who afterward became the great war governor. ABRAHAM LINCOLK. 71 attached to the young beauty, but his suit was not favorably regarded, and hegood-naturedly retired from the contest, having been rejected. McNeil prospered,and finally decided to return to New York state and bring his parents to NewSalem. He then told Ann, to whom he had become engaged, that his real namewas MeXamar, and that he had changed it so that his relatives would not dis-cover him until he had made enough money to support them. This cause
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