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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 2. (search)
to come. Scribes were not plenty on the frontier, and Mentor Graham, the clerk who was present, looking around for a propeot only to the general satisfaction, but so as to interest Graham, who was a schoolmaster, and afterward made himself very ueling his way to his destiny when, in conversation with Mentor Graham, the schoolmaster, he indicated his desire to use some ish grammar. It was entirely in the nature of things that Graham should encourage this mental craving, and tell him: If youoln said that if he had a grammar he would begin at once. Graham was obliged to confess that there was no such book at New ner's and procured the precious volume, and, probably with Graham's occasional help, found no great difficulty in mastering at time, we may fairly infer that, slight as may have been Graham's education, he must have had other books from which, togef Kirkham's Grammar, and educational conversations with Mentor Graham, in the somewhat rude but frank and hearty companionshi
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 3. (search)
us recorded by Lincoln: The surveyor of Sangamon offered to depute to Abraham that portion of his work which was within his part of the county. He accepted, procured a compass and chain, studied Flint and Gibson a little, and went at it. This procured bread, and kept soul and body together. Tradition has it that Calhoun not only gave him the appointment, but lent him the book in which to study the art, which he accomplished in a period of six weeks, aided by the schoolmaster, Mentor Graham. The exact period of this increase in knowledge and business capacity is not recorded, but it must have taken place in the summer of 1833, as there exists a certificate of survey in Lincoln's handwriting signed, J. Calhoun, S. S. C., by A. Lincoln, dated January 14, 1834. Before June of that year he had surveyed and located a public road from Musick's Ferry on Salt Creek, via New Salem, to the county line in the direction to Jacksonville, twenty-six miles and seventy chains in length,