The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . on, page 14S. A. Lincoln, Deputy-Surveyor When in the fall he had an opportunity to learn surveying, heaccepted it eagerly. .As the county of San-gamon was large, andeagerly sought by im-migrants, the countysurveyor in 1833, oneJohn Calhoun, neededdeputies. . With Lincoln, Cal-houn had little, if any,personal acquaintance,for they lived twentymiles apart. . Cal-houn had heard of him(Lincoln) as an honest,intelligent, and trust-worthy young man. Oneday he sent word toLincoln by
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . on, page 14S. A. Lincoln, Deputy-Surveyor When in the fall he had an opportunity to learn surveying, heaccepted it eagerly. .As the county of San-gamon was large, andeagerly sought by im-migrants, the countysurveyor in 1833, oneJohn Calhoun, neededdeputies. . With Lincoln, Cal-houn had little, if any,personal acquaintance,for they lived twentymiles apart. . Cal-houn had heard of him(Lincoln) as an honest,intelligent, and trust-worthy young man. Oneday he sent word toLincoln by Pollard Sim-mons, who lived in theNew Salem neighbor-hood, that he had de-cided to appoint himdeputy surveyor if hewould accept the posi-tion. ... It was a surprise to Lincoln. Calhoun was a Jack-son man; he was for Clay. What did he know about why should a Democratic official offer him a position of any-kind? He immediately went to Springfield, and had a talk withCalhoun. He would not accept the appointment, he said, unlesshe had the assurance that it involved no political obligation. This. ANDREW JACKSON
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