Portrait and biographical album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . M§5^m%^^^^ggii^ . ^i>1^<|p | ^j/l. ^a>^j]^_J>.iJgf^i ^. l^y?. BRAHAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of theed States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809. About the year 1780, aman by the name of AbraliamLincohi left Virginia with hisy family and moved into the thenwilds of Kentucky. Only two jearsafter this emigration, still a youn
Portrait and biographical album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . M§5^m%^^^^ggii^ . ^i>1^<|p | ^j/l. ^a>^j]^_J>.iJgf^i ^. l^y?. BRAHAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of theed States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809. About the year 1780, aman by the name of AbraliamLincohi left Virginia with hisy family and moved into the thenwilds of Kentucky. Only two jearsafter this emigration, still a youngman, while working one day in a^ field, was stealtliily appro::ched b)an 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, theIresident of the Lniited Stateswhose name must henceforth fo-ever be enrolledwiih the niDSt 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 wretchedli)g-cabin; his food the coarsest and the he had none; he could never either readnr write. As soon as he was able to do anythi
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