Why We Love LincolnOuting Publishing Company, 1909 - 168 pages |
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... father of the future Presi- Ident of the United States . In spite of an educated , well - to - do Ameri- can ancestry of pure English Quaker stock -one was a member of the Boston Tea Party ; another was a revolutionary minute- man ...
... father of the future Presi- Ident of the United States . In spite of an educated , well - to - do Ameri- can ancestry of pure English Quaker stock -one was a member of the Boston Tea Party ; another was a revolutionary minute- man ...
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... father had secured a better farm . It was a solitary and cheerless life for a child . Some- times he sat among the shavings of his father's carpenter shanty - a silent , lean little boy , with long , black hair and grave , deep - set ...
... father had secured a better farm . It was a solitary and cheerless life for a child . Some- times he sat among the shavings of his father's carpenter shanty - a silent , lean little boy , with long , black hair and grave , deep - set ...
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... father as a carpen- ter . He also " hired out " to the neighbors as ploughboy , hostler , water - carrier , baby- minder or doer of odd chores , at twenty- five cents a day . He suddenly began to grow tall , and there was no stronger ...
... father as a carpen- ter . He also " hired out " to the neighbors as ploughboy , hostler , water - carrier , baby- minder or doer of odd chores , at twenty- five cents a day . He suddenly began to grow tall , and there was no stronger ...
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