Portrait and biographical record of Shelby and Moultrie counties Illinois, containing ..sketches of prominent ..citizens ..the governors of the state ..the presidents of the United States . HOMAS CARLIN, the sixthGovernor of the State ofIllinois, serving from 1838to 1842, was also a Ken-tuckian, being born nearFrankfort, that State, July18, 1789, of Irish opportunities for an educationbeing very meager in his nativeplace, he, on approaching years ofjudgment and maturity, appliedhimself to those branches of learn-ing that seemed most important,and thus became a self-made man ;and
Portrait and biographical record of Shelby and Moultrie counties Illinois, containing ..sketches of prominent ..citizens ..the governors of the state ..the presidents of the United States . HOMAS CARLIN, the sixthGovernor of the State ofIllinois, serving from 1838to 1842, was also a Ken-tuckian, being born nearFrankfort, that State, July18, 1789, of Irish opportunities for an educationbeing very meager in his nativeplace, he, on approaching years ofjudgment and maturity, appliedhimself to those branches of learn-ing that seemed most important,and thus became a self-made man ;and his taste for reading andstudy remained with him throughIn 1803 his father removed10 Missouri, then a part of New Spain, where hedied in 1810. In 181 2 young Carlin came to Illinois and partici-pated in all the ranging service incident to thewar of that period, proving himself a soldier of un-daunted bravery. In 1814 he married RebeccaHunt, and lived for four years on the bank of theMississippi River, opposite the mouth of the Mis-souri, where he followed farming, and then removedto Greene County. He located the town site of , in that county, and in 1825 made a liberaldona
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