. Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; made up of personal reminiscences of an early life in Menard County, which we gathered in a Salem life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg life from 1840 to 1850; including personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Cartright. REMINISCENCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Reminiscences of Lincoln CHAPTER I. Yjjf. pi ? %ft **--~ N 1832 a large territory of land, known as theBlack I lawk purchase, embracing the stale ofIowa, was opened for settlement, and the tideof emigration set out that our earliest recollection, Iowa was the termin
. Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; made up of personal reminiscences of an early life in Menard County, which we gathered in a Salem life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg life from 1840 to 1850; including personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Cartright. REMINISCENCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Reminiscences of Lincoln CHAPTER I. Yjjf. pi ? %ft **--~ N 1832 a large territory of land, known as theBlack I lawk purchase, embracing the stale ofIowa, was opened for settlement, and the tideof emigration set out that our earliest recollection, Iowa was the terminus ofemigratii m, and when a man had cattle or milch cows for salehe drove them to the mine-, which were adjacent. It wasthe only market. Some misunderstanding occurred andBlack Hawk refused to vacate, the settlers were at the mercyof the Indian warriors. Volunteers were called for. As therequisite number did not answer, the call for a draft wasordered, and my father was drafted. Lincoln was the cap-tain of a company. As my father had a family of smallchildren, and could not well go, he hired a substitute, .1young man who had come to Salem at that time by the nameof John llillis. who agreed to go in his place, my fathergiving him thirty dollars and his rifle. Lincolns companyleft for the scene of ac
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