Portrait and biographical album of Mahaska County, Iowa, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Iowa, and of the presidents of the United States . ggag^^y^^^^Q^HOsaK^o^Q^. sasigr^ LINCOLN, > 1 BRAHAM LINCOLN, the sixteenth President of the^United States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809. About the year 17 80, aman by the name of AbrahamLincoln left Virginia with hisfamily and moved into the thenwilds of Kentucky. Only two yearsafter this emigratio
Portrait and biographical album of Mahaska County, Iowa, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Iowa, and of the presidents of the United States . ggag^^y^^^^Q^HOsaK^o^Q^. sasigr^ LINCOLN, > 1 BRAHAM LINCOLN, the sixteenth President of the^United States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809. About the year 17 80, aman by the name of AbrahamLincoln left Virginia with hisfamily and moved into the thenwilds of Kentucky. Only two yearsafter this emigration, still a youngman, while working one day in afield, was stealthily approached 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 forever 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 amongthe 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
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