Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . BR\HAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of theOUnited States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809 About tlie year 17 80, uman by the name of Abraham^^ Lmcohi left Virginia with liist imily and moved into the thenwildsof Kentucky. Only two jearsafter this emigration, still a youngman, while working one day in aheld, was stealthily ajiproached by1 Indian and shot dead. His widowas left in extreme poverty with fiveittle children, three boys and twogirls. Thomas, the youngest of thelioys, was four years of age at hisfathers death.
Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . BR\HAM LINCOLN, thesixteenth President of theOUnited States, was born inHardin Co., Ky., Feb. 12,1809 About tlie year 17 80, uman by the name of Abraham^^ Lmcohi left Virginia with liist imily and moved into the thenwildsof Kentucky. Only two jearsafter this emigration, still a youngman, while working one day in aheld, was stealthily ajiproached by1 Indian and shot dead. His widowas left in extreme poverty with fiveittle children, three boys and twogirls. Thomas, the youngest of thelioys, was four years of age at hisfathers death. This Thomas wasthe father of Aljraham Lincoln, thePresident of the United .Stateswhose name must henceforth fo-ever be enrolledwith the most prominent in the annals of our course no record has been kept of tlie 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 anythi
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