Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . BRAHAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of theJnited States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809. About the year 1780, aman by the name of AbrahamLincohi left Virginia with hisfamily and moved into the thenwilds of Kentucky. Only two yearsafter this emigration, still a youngman, while working one day in afield, was stealthily approached b)an Indian and shot dead. His widowwas left in extreme [wverty with fivelittle children, three boys and twogirls. Thomas, the youngest of tlieboys, was four years of age at hisfathers death. Th
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . BRAHAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of theJnited States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809. About the year 1780, aman by the name of AbrahamLincohi left Virginia with hisfamily and moved into the thenwilds of Kentucky. Only two yearsafter this emigration, still a youngman, while working one day in afield, was stealthily approached b)an Indian and shot dead. His widowwas left in extreme [wverty with fivelittle children, three boys and twogirls. Thomas, the youngest of tlieboys, was four years of age at hisfathers death. This Thomas wasthe father of Abraham Lincoln, thePresident of the United Stateswhose name must henceforth fo^ever be enrolledwith the mc3st 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 wretchedlog-cabin; his food the coarsest and the he had none; he could never either reador write. As soon as he was able to do anything f
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