Portrait and biographical album of Hillsdale county, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . /ji.^ #>f^<il f5 t» ^^^^^§M^iie^aiicsiL::V rf. IJRAHAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of thef^United States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809. About the year 17S0, aV man by the name of AbrahamLincohi left Virginia with hisfamily and moved into the thenwilds of Kentucky. Only two yearsafter
Portrait and biographical album of Hillsdale county, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . /ji.^ #>f^<il f5 t» ^^^^^§M^iie^aiicsiL::V rf. IJRAHAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of thef^United States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809. About the year 17S0, aV man by the name of AbrahamLincohi left Virginia with hisfamily and moved into the thenwilds of Kentucky. Only two yearsafter this emigration, still a youngman, while working one day in afield, was stealthily approached byan Indian and shot dead. His widowwas left in extreme poverty with fivelittle children, three boys and twogirls. Tiiomas, the youngest of theboys, was four years of age at hisfathers death. This Thomas wasthe father of .\braham Lincoln, thePresident of the United Stateswhose name must henceforth fcever be enrolledwith the most prominent in the annals of our course no record has been kept of the lifeof one so lowly as Thomas Lincoln. He was amongthe [xjorest of the jwor. His home was a wretchedlog-cabin; his food the coarsest and the he had none; he could never either reador write. As soon as he was able to do anyth
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