Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... later research has rendered certain . Recognizing that his parents were of humble life , and ranking himself with plain people , he distinctly claimed to be of a stock which , though it had produced no man of great emi- nence , had ...
... later research has rendered certain . Recognizing that his parents were of humble life , and ranking himself with plain people , he distinctly claimed to be of a stock which , though it had produced no man of great emi- nence , had ...
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... later described as a mariner . His oldest son , Samuel junior , was a carpenter , held local office , and served as a trooper in the King Philip War . His great - grandson , Levi Lincoln , a Harvard graduate , was Attorney General under ...
... later described as a mariner . His oldest son , Samuel junior , was a carpenter , held local office , and served as a trooper in the King Philip War . His great - grandson , Levi Lincoln , a Harvard graduate , was Attorney General under ...
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... Later , he was employed for a time in Elizabethtown , Hardin County , where he learned carpentry , and perhaps cabinet - making , in ; which he afterward showed some skill . He was not lacking in an honest inclination to earn his own ...
... Later , he was employed for a time in Elizabethtown , Hardin County , where he learned carpentry , and perhaps cabinet - making , in ; which he afterward showed some skill . He was not lacking in an honest inclination to earn his own ...
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... later than he . I knew his father and his relatives in Kentucky . They were a good family . They were poor , the very poor- est people of the middle class , I might say , - but they were true . " Of this home on the Nolin , young ...
... later than he . I knew his father and his relatives in Kentucky . They were a good family . They were poor , the very poor- est people of the middle class , I might say , - but they were true . " Of this home on the Nolin , young ...
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... Later , he in like manner became a pupil of Caleb Hazel , his mother's cousin - in - law , who occasionally exercised his gifts as a Baptist minister . Of both these teachers he always retained pleasant remembrance , though he was under ...
... Later , he in like manner became a pupil of Caleb Hazel , his mother's cousin - in - law , who occasionally exercised his gifts as a Baptist minister . Of both these teachers he always retained pleasant remembrance , though he was under ...
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