The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . CRAWFORD WELL. In a field near the Crawford house is a well which is pointed out to sight-seers as one which Lincoln helped to dig. Many things about the Crawfordplace—fences, corn-cribs, house, barn—were built in part by Mr. THE CRA1 KURD HOUSE. The house of Josiah Crawford, near Gentryville, Indiana. Here Mr. Lincoln worked by theday for several months, and his sister
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . CRAWFORD WELL. In a field near the Crawford house is a well which is pointed out to sight-seers as one which Lincoln helped to dig. Many things about the Crawfordplace—fences, corn-cribs, house, barn—were built in part by Mr. THE CRA1 KURD HOUSE. The house of Josiah Crawford, near Gentryville, Indiana. Here Mr. Lincoln worked by theday for several months, and his sister was a hired girl for Mrs. Crawford. In 1829 Mr. Lincolncut down timber and whip-sawed it into planks for a new house which his father proposed to build;but Thomas Lincoln had decided to go to Illinois before the new house was begun, and Abrahamsold his planks to Mr. Crawford, who worked them into the southeast room of his house, whererelic-seekers have since cut them to pieces to make canes. This picture is made after a photo-graph taken before the death of Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, both of whom are shown here. BECOMES A CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS 199 the din and uproar of the younger element, a few grown-upmale radicals and partisan women sang and cheered loudlyfor their favorites, who kept on with their flow of politicalinformation. Lieutenant Carr stood in his carriage, and ad-dressed the crowd around him, while a local politician actedas grand
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