. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella county, Mich., containing portraits and biographical sketches of ... citizens ... also containing a complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement to the present time . m>^<M 1 5 i8< HRAHAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of the5I^United States, was liorn inlardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,About tlie year 1780, aman by the name of AbrahamLincohi left Virginia with hisfamily and moved into the thenwildsof Kentucky. Only two yearsafter this emigration, still a youngman, while working one day in afield, was stealtiiily approached byan I
. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella county, Mich., containing portraits and biographical sketches of ... citizens ... also containing a complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement to the present time . m>^<M 1 5 i8< HRAHAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of the5I^United States, was liorn inlardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,About tlie year 1780, aman by the name of AbrahamLincohi left Virginia with hisfamily and moved into the thenwildsof Kentucky. Only two yearsafter this emigration, still a youngman, while working one day in afield, was stealtiiily approached byan Indian and shot dead. His widowwas left in extreme poverty with fivelittle children, three boys and twogirls. Thomas, the youngest of theboys, was four years of age at hisfathers death. This Thomas wasthe father of Abraham Lincoln, thePresident of the United Stateswhose name must henceforth forever be enrolledwith the most prominent in the annals of our no record has been kept of the lifeof one so lowly as Thomas Lincoln. He was amongthe [worest of the poor. His home was a wretchedlog-cabin; his food the coarsest and the he had none; he could never eit
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