. McClure's magazine. and is now a tumble-down old stable. Here Lincoln wasa frequent boarder, especially during the period of his closest application to the study of the out on the cellar door of his cabin, reading a book, he met for the first time Dick Yates,then a college student at Jacksonville, and destined to become the great War Governor of theState. Yates had come home with William G. Greene to spend his vacation, and Greene took himaround to Bowling Greens house to introduce him to his friend, Abe Lincoln. Unhappily thereis nowhere in existence a picture of the original
. McClure's magazine. and is now a tumble-down old stable. Here Lincoln wasa frequent boarder, especially during the period of his closest application to the study of the out on the cellar door of his cabin, reading a book, he met for the first time Dick Yates,then a college student at Jacksonville, and destined to become the great War Governor of theState. Yates had come home with William G. Greene to spend his vacation, and Greene took himaround to Bowling Greens house to introduce him to his friend, Abe Lincoln. Unhappily thereis nowhere in existence a picture of the original occupant of this humble cabin. Bowling Green wasone of the leading citizens of the county. He was County Commissioner from 1826 to 1828 ; he wasfor many years a justice of the peace ; he was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and avery active and uncompromising Whig. The friendship between him and Lincoln, beginning at avery early day, continued until his death in 1842.—^ McCan Davis. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. T23. -■;. :\ From a photograph made for this Magazine. THE BLACK HAWK. After a portrait by George Catlin, in the National Museum at Washington, D. C, and herereproduced by the courtesy of the director, Mr. G. Brown Goode. Makataimeshekiakiak, theBlack Hawk Sparrow, was born in 1767 on the Rock River. He was not a chief by birth, butthrough the valor of his deeds became the leader of his village. He was imaginative and dis-contented, and bred endless trouble in the Northwest by his complaints and his visionaryschemes. He was completely under the influence of the British agents, and in 1812 joined Te-cumseh in the war against the United States. After the close of that war, the Hawk waspeaceable until driven to resistance by the encroachments of the squatters. After the battle ofBad Axe he escaped, and was not captured until betrayed by two Winnebagoes. He was takento Fort Armstrong, where he signed a treaty of peace, and then was transferred as a prisonerof war to Jef
Size: 1247px × 2004px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidmccluresmaga, bookyear1893
