Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ^^^^^^^^^HOMAS CARLIN, the sixth^ Governor of the State of Illinois, serving from 1838to 1S42, was also a Ken-tuckian, being born nearFrankfort, that State, July18, 1789, of Irish paternity,opportunities for an educationbeing very meager in his nativeplace, he, on approaching years ofjudiiment and maturity, appliedhimself to those branches of learn-ing that seemed most important,and thus became a self-made man ;and his taste for reading andSlXXAfft study remained with him through^v»^i»^v<* jjfg_ Y\\ 1803 his father removed to Mi
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ^^^^^^^^^HOMAS CARLIN, the sixth^ Governor of the State of Illinois, serving from 1838to 1S42, was also a Ken-tuckian, being born nearFrankfort, that State, July18, 1789, of Irish paternity,opportunities for an educationbeing very meager in his nativeplace, he, on approaching years ofjudiiment and maturity, appliedhimself to those branches of learn-ing that seemed most important,and thus became a self-made man ;and his taste for reading andSlXXAfft study remained with him through^v»^i»^v<* jjfg_ Y\\ 1803 his father removed to Missouri, then a part of New Spain, where hedied in 1810. In 1812 young Carlin came to Illinois and partici-pated in all the ranging service incident to thewar of that period, proving himself a soldier of un-daunted bravery. In 1814 he married RebeccaHuitt, and lived for four years on the bank of theMississippi River, opposite the mouth of the Mis-souri, where he followed farming, and then removedto Greene County. He located the town site of Car-rirton, in t
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