Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... passed the more conscious years of his early childhood . Almost his earliest recollections were of sitting with his sister at his mother's feet , listening as she read from a book or told tales of imagination or experience . Here his ...
... passed the more conscious years of his early childhood . Almost his earliest recollections were of sitting with his sister at his mother's feet , listening as she read from a book or told tales of imagination or experience . Here his ...
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... passed before a store was opened or the logs were hewn for the Little Pigeon Baptist meeting - house . Here , from his eighth year to his majority , Abraham Lincoln had his chief experience of pioneer life . The subjugators of a ...
... passed before a store was opened or the logs were hewn for the Little Pigeon Baptist meeting - house . Here , from his eighth year to his majority , Abraham Lincoln had his chief experience of pioneer life . The subjugators of a ...
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... passed through an experience not widely different . Gentryville is farther south than Louisville or St. Louis . Around its site the newcomers found a rich soil and much green turf beneath the forest trees , with some- times a luxurious ...
... passed through an experience not widely different . Gentryville is farther south than Louisville or St. Louis . Around its site the newcomers found a rich soil and much green turf beneath the forest trees , with some- times a luxurious ...
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... passed into the possession of the more fortunate James Gentry . Sangamon County was organized in 1821 , and Springfield , while as yet having little more than a paper existence , became the county seat . Farther up the ( 25 ) CHAPTER ...
... passed into the possession of the more fortunate James Gentry . Sangamon County was organized in 1821 , and Springfield , while as yet having little more than a paper existence , became the county seat . Farther up the ( 25 ) CHAPTER ...
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... educated Kentuckian and among Lincoln's most esteemed acquaintances here . * Later of Tallula , Menard County - a wealthy farmer and banker . He died in 1894 . As the autumn and winter ( 1831-2 ) passed , REMOVAL TO ILLINOIS . 29.
... educated Kentuckian and among Lincoln's most esteemed acquaintances here . * Later of Tallula , Menard County - a wealthy farmer and banker . He died in 1894 . As the autumn and winter ( 1831-2 ) passed , REMOVAL TO ILLINOIS . 29.
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