Abraham Lincoln . ;0). My father at the death of his father was but six years of age, and he grew up literally withouteducation. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county. Indiana, in my eighth reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region,with bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew to manhood. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of the teacherbeyond readin, writin, and cipherin to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understandLatin happened to so
Abraham Lincoln . ;0). My father at the death of his father was but six years of age, and he grew up literally withouteducation. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county. Indiana, in my eighth reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region,with bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew to manhood. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of the teacherbeyond readin, writin, and cipherin to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understandLatin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There wasnothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I came of age I did not know , somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, and that was all. I have notbeen to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of education I have picked upfrom time to time, under the pressure of necessity. I was raised to farm work, whi
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