Abraham Lincoln's secretaries . er proved finan-cially profitable. Ver-ry Inter - resting(If True?) EDITORS NOTE: Little known references tothe Lincoln family in Kentucky have alwaysappealed to the editor, as he is a native ofthe Blue Grass State, and recently whilechecking an item in Emanuel Hertzs, TheHidden Lincoln, The Vikinft Press, 1938, Wil-liam H. Herndons letter to Jesse Weik, Janu-ary 9, 1886, came under close scrutiny. Hern-don related to Weik a very questionable storythat he claimed occurred in 1817 (the Lincolnfamily moved to Indiana in December, 1816)which he attributed to Mentor
Abraham Lincoln's secretaries . er proved finan-cially profitable. Ver-ry Inter - resting(If True?) EDITORS NOTE: Little known references tothe Lincoln family in Kentucky have alwaysappealed to the editor, as he is a native ofthe Blue Grass State, and recently whilechecking an item in Emanuel Hertzs, TheHidden Lincoln, The Vikinft Press, 1938, Wil-liam H. Herndons letter to Jesse Weik, Janu-ary 9, 1886, came under close scrutiny. Hern-don related to Weik a very questionable storythat he claimed occurred in 1817 (the Lincolnfamily moved to Indiana in December, 1816)which he attributed to Mentor Graham. Thestatement follows: The name of the man is MentorGraham; he was an intelligent man,a good and a truthful man, and yetin some things he was sortercranky. About the year 1817 he wastraveling from to Elizabeth-town, Kentucky. In passing from to the latter place he saw at a littleplace a crowd of men, stopped, hitchedhis horse, and went among the crowd,soon found out that a man had killedhis wife. Persons were expressing. From the Lincoln National Life Foundation The original folding camp chair pat-ented by John G. Nicolay, January27, 1891. their horror of the act. Soon afterGraham had stopped Thomas Lincolnand his boy Abraham came along andstopped, went among the crowd, foundout what was the matter, had someconversation with the crowd, and nowcomes the nib of this letter. Afterall the people had expressed theirideas, one of the men said to Abra-ham: My little boy, what do youthink of such a deed? The boystudied a moment, and gave a terseand eloquent idea of the cruel says that the boy was verysad, that his language was eloquentand feeling for one so young. Theremarks which he made astonished allpresent, were pronounced good, plain,terse, and strong, and says Graham:I have now known Mr. Lincoln formore than fifty years and I can seethe same trait of character and thesame style now in Lincoln that I didin 1817 in Kentucky . . The Ten Maxims —Not Lincolns Wor
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