Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... majority , he went off to find his uncle Isaac in Eastern Tennes- see ; succeeded in his quest ; and worked for a year or more on his uncle's farm . * Later , he was employed for a time in Elizabethtown , Hardin County , where he ...
... majority , he went off to find his uncle Isaac in Eastern Tennes- see ; succeeded in his quest ; and worked for a year or more on his uncle's farm . * Later , he was employed for a time in Elizabethtown , Hardin County , where he ...
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... majority , Abraham Lincoln had his chief experience of pioneer life . The subjugators of a continental wilderness had always to begin with a very simple domestic shelter , and to live under hard conditions , that improved but slowly at ...
... majority , Abraham Lincoln had his chief experience of pioneer life . The subjugators of a continental wilderness had always to begin with a very simple domestic shelter , and to live under hard conditions , that improved but slowly at ...
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... majority of two votes in the joint assembly . To this period belongs a romance , with tragic end- ing , current among Menard traditions thirty years later . Its substance was then communicated to the writer , as follows : " Miss Ann ...
... majority of two votes in the joint assembly . To this period belongs a romance , with tragic end- ing , current among Menard traditions thirty years later . Its substance was then communicated to the writer , as follows : " Miss Ann ...
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... majority ; and Mr. Semple was again the Speaker . Lincoln was assigned a place on the Financial Committee . Besides the members already named , there were many who were afterward prominent in State or national politics , including James ...
... majority ; and Mr. Semple was again the Speaker . Lincoln was assigned a place on the Financial Committee . Besides the members already named , there were many who were afterward prominent in State or national politics , including James ...
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... majority , except in the first element of financial wisdom , good faith with public creditors . He was chosen to the House of Representatives for the fourth time in 1840 , and was again the candidate of the Whig minority for Speaker ...
... majority , except in the first element of financial wisdom , good faith with public creditors . He was chosen to the House of Representatives for the fourth time in 1840 , and was again the candidate of the Whig minority for Speaker ...
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