The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . nd groceries were the chief purchaseshe made, though on one of the ledgers a pair of silk sus-penders, worth one dollar and fifty cents, was entered. Henot only enjoyed a certain credit with the people of Eliza-bethtown ; he was sufficiently respected by the public authori-ties to be appointed in 1816 a road surveyor, or, as the office ^s&rn-iy^aAgS /$^t i-^da*^» ft/ft FACSIMILE
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . nd groceries were the chief purchaseshe made, though on one of the ledgers a pair of silk sus-penders, worth one dollar and fifty cents, was entered. Henot only enjoyed a certain credit with the people of Eliza-bethtown ; he was sufficiently respected by the public authori-ties to be appointed in 1816 a road surveyor, or, as the office ^s&rn-iy^aAgS /$^t i-^da*^» ft/ft FACSIMILE OP THE APPOINTMENT OF THOMAS LINCOLN AS ROAD SURVEYOR. is known in some localities, supervisor. It was not, to besure, a position of great importance, but it proved that he wasconsidered fit to oversee a body of men at a task of consider-able value to the community. Indeed, all of the documentsmentioning Thomas Lincoln which have been discoveredshow him to have had a much better position in Hardincounty than he has been credited with. It was at Elizabethtown that the first child of the Lincolns,a daughter, was born. Soon after this event Thomas Lin-coln decided to combine farming with his trade, and moved.
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