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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... Indiana-Conditions of Life in their New Home . . . . . III. Abraham Lincoln's Early Opportunities-The Books He Read-Trips to New Orleans-Impression He Made on His Friends . . . . . . . . . IV. The Lincolns Leave Indiana-The Journey to ...
... Indiana Farm Thomas Lincoln's Bible Lincoln's Exercise Book Abraham Lincoln's Indiana Home Lincoln Working by Firelight Facsimile Lines from Copy-book Swimming Hole Buckthorn Valley Grave of Nancy Hanks New Salem Mill Mouth of Anderson ...
... Indiana, and there he died. The two daughters married into well-known Kentucky families; the elder, Mary, marrying Ralph Crume ; the younger, Nancy, William Brumfield. The death of Abraham Lincoln was saddest for the youngest of the ...
... and thump until he had his auditors frightened. VIEW OF ROCK SPRING FARM, WHERE PRESIDENT LINCOLN WAS BORN. Rock SPRING, ON THE FARM WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN. THE LINCOLNS LEAVE KENTUCKY FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA - CONDITIONS OF.
... Indiana. “ This removal was partly on account of slavery, but chiefly on account of the difficulty in land titles in Kentucky,” says his son. It was due, as well, no doubt, to the fascination which an unknown country has always for the ...