Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... returned to this place on the 1st day of Decem- ber , and inquired for the residence of Widow Johnston . She lived near the clerk's office . I was the clerk , and informed him how to find her . He was not slow to present himself before ...
... returned to this place on the 1st day of Decem- ber , and inquired for the residence of Widow Johnston . She lived near the clerk's office . I was the clerk , and informed him how to find her . He was not slow to present himself before ...
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... Returning by steamboat to Rockport , the young navigators were at home again before the end of June . From Lincoln's birth until the close of his Indiana life and his minority there are no contemporary letters or other writings of ...
... Returning by steamboat to Rockport , the young navigators were at home again before the end of June . From Lincoln's birth until the close of his Indiana life and his minority there are no contemporary letters or other writings of ...
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... returned from a visit to his father ( who had finally settled in Coles County ) , and was pressed into service as a clerk at the polls . It was here , in Clary's Grove precinct , that he cast his first vote . The viva voce method ...
... returned from a visit to his father ( who had finally settled in Coles County ) , and was pressed into service as a clerk at the polls . It was here , in Clary's Grove precinct , that he cast his first vote . The viva voce method ...
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... returned from piloting " The Talis- man " back to Beardstown , in the spring of 1832 , when news came that Black Hawk was again on the warpath in Rock River valley , and Governor Reynolds again called for volunteers to aid in repelling ...
... returned from piloting " The Talis- man " back to Beardstown , in the spring of 1832 , when news came that Black Hawk was again on the warpath in Rock River valley , and Governor Reynolds again called for volunteers to aid in repelling ...
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... returned from this visit with restored health , and resumed his professional business in September . There was nothing really dangerous in these moods , as the event always proved for this was neither the first nor the last of his ...
... returned from this visit with restored health , and resumed his professional business in September . There was nothing really dangerous in these moods , as the event always proved for this was neither the first nor the last of his ...
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