Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ?i > H^D ^i>^^^<|S m 3v^ ^«\^S<J J^i^C H_^i. A f-. BRAHAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of theJ^United States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809. About the yean780, aman by the name of Abraham^^ Lincohi 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 stealthily appronclied byan Indian and shot dead. His widowwas left in extreme poverty with fivelittle children, three boys and twogir
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ?i > H^D ^i>^^^<|S m 3v^ ^«\^S<J J^i^C H_^i. A f-. BRAHAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of theJ^United States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809. About the yean780, aman by the name of Abraham^^ Lincohi 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 stealthily appronclied 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 fo-ever 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 among(he poorest of the poor. 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 anything
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