The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . THE NEW SALEM MILL TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. After a painting bv Mrs. Bennett; reproduced, by permission, from Menard-Salem-Lincoln Souvenir Album, Petersburg, Illinois, 1893. The Rut ledge and Cam-eron mill, of which Lincoln at one time had charge, stood on the same spot as the millin the picture, and had the same This ferrv, at the mouth of Anderson Creek, was first e
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . THE NEW SALEM MILL TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. After a painting bv Mrs. Bennett; reproduced, by permission, from Menard-Salem-Lincoln Souvenir Album, Petersburg, Illinois, 1893. The Rut ledge and Cam-eron mill, of which Lincoln at one time had charge, stood on the same spot as the millin the picture, and had the same This ferrv, at the mouth of Anderson Creek, was first established and owned byJames McDaniel, and was afterwards kept by his son-in-law James Taylor. It was thelatter who hired Abraham Lincoln, about 1S26. to attend the ferry-boat As the boatdid not keep him busv all the time, he acted as man-of-all-work around the farm. Ason of James Taylor, Captain Green B. Taylor of South Dakato, is still alive anrt re-members distinctly the months Lincoln spent in his fathers employ. Captain laylorsays that Lincoln slept upstairs with him, and used to read till near midnight. CHAPTER V LINCOLN SECURES A POSITION—HE STUDIES GRAMMAR-FIRST APPEARANCE IN POLITICS The month in New Orleans passed swiftly, and in June,1831, Lincoln and his companions took passage up the did not return, however, in the usual condition of theriver boatman out of a job. According to his own way ofputting it, during this boat-enterprise acquaintance withOffutt, who was previously an entire stranger, he conceived a
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