The Life of Abraham Lincoln Volumes 1 & 2, Volúmenes1-2Digital Scanning Inc, 1998 - 426 páginas The work here offered the public was begun in 1894 at the suggestion of Mr. S. S. McClure and Mr. J. S. Phillips, editors of "McClure's Magazine." Their desire was to add to our knowledge of Abraham Lincoln by collecting and preserving the reminiscences of such of his contemporaries as were then living. In undertaking the work it was determined to spare neither labor nor money and in this determination Mr. McClure and his associates have never wavered. Without the sympathy, confidence, suggestion, and criticism, which they have given the work it would have been impossible. They established in their editorial rooms what might be called a Lincoln Bureau and from there an organized search was made for reminiscences, pictures, and documents. To facilitate the work, all persons possessing or knowing of Lincoln material were asked through the magazine to communicate with the editor. The response was immediate and amazing. Hundreds of persons from all parts of the country replied. In every case the clues thus obtained were investigated and if the matter was found to be new and useful was secured. The author wrote thousands of letters and traveled thousands of miles in collecting the material, which came to the editor simply as a result of this request in the magazine. The work thus became one in which the whole country cooperated. No attempt has been made to cover the history of Lincoln's times save as necessary in tracing the development of his mind and in illustrating his moral qualities. It is Lincoln the man, as seen by his fellows and revealed by his own acts and words that the author has tried to picture. |
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... Illinois, has been of great service, particularly in examining the files of Illinois newspapers and in interviewing, It is to Mr. Davis's intelligent and patient research that we owe the report of Lincoln's first published speech, the ...
... Illinois in 1834-Lincoln Reads Law-First Term as Assemblyman-Lincoln's First Great Sorrow . IX. Lincoln is Re-elected to the Illinois Assembly-His First Published Address-Protests against Pro-slavery Resolutions of the Assembly ...
... Illinois Lincoln's Cabinet Lincoln's Saddle-Bags Page from Stuart and Lincoln Fee Book Stuart and Lincoln Law Office Harrison Badge of 1840 Stuart and Lincoln Adv. Card Invitation to Cotillion Portrait of Shields Mary Todd Lincoln ...
... Illinois. Of Josiah, the second son, we know very little more than that the records show that he owned and sold land. He left Kentucky when a young man, to settle on the Blue river, in Harrison County, Indiana, and there he died. The ...
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