The Lincoln story-calendar 1809 1909; one hundredth anniversary . John Brown. AUGUST SUN. MON. TUBS. WED. THURS. FRI. SAT. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ( 3 1809. 1909 LINCOLNS AUTOBIOGRAPHY Springfield, December 20, 1S59. J. W. Fell, Esq., My Dear Sir : Herewith is a little sketch, as you requested. There is not muchof it, for the reason, I suppose, that there is not much of me. If anything be made of it,I wish it to be modest, and not to go beyond the material. . I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents wereboth born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—second families
The Lincoln story-calendar 1809 1909; one hundredth anniversary . John Brown. AUGUST SUN. MON. TUBS. WED. THURS. FRI. SAT. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ( 3 1809. 1909 LINCOLNS AUTOBIOGRAPHY Springfield, December 20, 1S59. J. W. Fell, Esq., My Dear Sir : Herewith is a little sketch, as you requested. There is not muchof it, for the reason, I suppose, that there is not much of me. If anything be made of it,I wish it to be modest, and not to go beyond the material. . I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents wereboth born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—second families, perhaps I should mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks. Mypaternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782,where, a year or two later, he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, whenhe was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went toVirginia from Berks County, Peiuisylvania. . My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and grew up literallywithout education. He removed from Kentucky to what
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