. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. m adrift to become a wanderinglaboring-boy before he had learned even to read. Thomasseems not to have inherited any of the fathers estate, andfrom the first to have been obliged to shift for himself. Forseveral years he supported himself by rough farm work ofall kinds, learning, in the meantime, the trade of carpenterand cabinet-maker. According to one of his acquaintances, Tom had the best set of tools in what was then and nowWashington County, and was a good
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. m adrift to become a wanderinglaboring-boy before he had learned even to read. Thomasseems not to have inherited any of the fathers estate, andfrom the first to have been obliged to shift for himself. Forseveral years he supported himself by rough farm work ofall kinds, learning, in the meantime, the trade of carpenterand cabinet-maker. According to one of his acquaintances, Tom had the best set of tools in what was then and nowWashington County, and was a good carpenter for thosedays, when a cabin was built mainly with the axe, and not anail or bolt-hinge in it; only leathers and pins to the door,and no glass. Although a skilled craftsman for his day,he never became a thrifty or ambitious man. He wouldwork energetically enough when a job was brought to him,but he would never seek a job. But if Thomas Lincolnplied his trade spasmodically, he shared the pioneers love forland, for when but twenty-five years old, and still withoutthe responsibility of a family, he bought a farm in Hardin. ;-*r; ^ : ■ ■■ ^ , >, * \^ ^ -A -; • , : - •m ■ ^ -vN Ifif-/- ^■■. > ^ ■J\ ; ■V-{ : ^^ ^v :, ^ v.^^ : ««»■ 1 : - vr < r , : vj ; \ -; V .■;.. • ■: |- \ ■i~^ -.^ : T ■ ~ V: .:; J ■ - -yi ^ !^^ ^^ ^^ ■ iv.;-. ^;- h A. V v:i ■ )^r^ g; t. ^ \ i ORIGIN OF THE LINCOLN FAMILY 7 County, Kentucky. This fact is of importance, proving as itdoes that Thomas Lincoln was not the altogether shiftlessman he has been pictured. Certainly he must have beenabove the grade of the ordinary country boy, to have had theenergy and ambition to learn a trade and secure a farmthrough his own efforts by the time he was twenty-five. Hewas illiterate, never doing more in the way of writingthan to bunglingly write his own name. Nevertheless, hehad the reputation in the country of being good-natured andobliging, and possessing wha
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