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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 1. (search)
that the home was gradually broken up, and Thomas Lincoln became even in childhood a wandering laboof Joseph Hanks in Elizabethtown. When Thomas Lincoln was about twenty-eight years old he marriewing year. During the next twelvemonth Thomas Lincoln either grew tired of his carpenter work, onows of an Indiana winter. It illustrates Thomas Lincoln's want of energy, that the family remaineddually grew. For a year after his arrival Thomas Lincoln remained a mere squatter. Then he enteredand next summer, but in the autumn of 1819 Thomas Lincoln went back to Kentucky and married Sally Buey came. It is reasonable to infer that the Lincoln family had no such luxuries, and, as the Pigeo longer be in his hands or possession. Mr. Lincoln has himself written that these three differyes followed them with wistful eagerness. Thomas Lincoln and his Pigeon Creek relatives and neighboirrepressible longing by a common impulse. Mr. Lincoln writes: March 1, 1830, Abraham having j[8 more...]
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 2. (search)
Chapter 2. Flatboat New Salem election clerk store and mill Kirkham's grammar --Sangamo Journal the Talisman Lincoln's address, March 9, 1832 Black Hawk War Lincoln elected Captain mustered out May 27, 1832 reenlisted in Independent Spy Battalion finally mustered out, June 16, 1832 defeated for the legislature blacksmith or lawyer? the Lincoln Berry store appointed Postmaster, May 7, 1833 national politics The life of Abraham Lincoln, or that part oLincoln elected Captain mustered out May 27, 1832 reenlisted in Independent Spy Battalion finally mustered out, June 16, 1832 defeated for the legislature blacksmith or lawyer? the Lincoln Berry store appointed Postmaster, May 7, 1833 national politics The life of Abraham Lincoln, or that part of it which will interest readers for all future time, properly begins in March, 1831, after the winter of the deep snow. According to frontier custom, being then twenty-one years old, he left his father's cabin to make his own fortune in the world. A man named Denton Offutt, one of a class of local traders and speculators usually found about early Western settlements, had probably heard something of young Lincoln's Indiana history, particularly that he had made a voyage on a flatboat from Ind