 | John Carroll Power - Anagamon County (Ill.) - 1876 - 820 pages
...Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard county, where I remained a year, as a sort of clerk in a store. Then came the Black Hawk...me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went the campaign, was elated; ran for the legislature the same year — '832 — and -was beaten, the only... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 916 pages
...Sanganiou. now in Menard со., where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store. Then came the Blank Hawk war, and I was elected a captain of volunteers...success which gave me more pleasure than any I have liad «nee. I went the campaign, was elated: ran for the legislature the game year (li*32), and was... | |
 | Education - 1911 - 458 pages
...Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard county, where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store. Then came the Black Hawk...me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went thru the campaign, was elated, ran for the legislature the same year (1832), and was beaten — the... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 pages
...Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard, county, where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store. Then came the Black Hawk...me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went into the campaign, was elected; ran for the Legislature the same year (1832) and was beaten — the... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 476 pages
...Then 1 got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where i remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store. Then came the Black Hawk...war, and i was elected a Captain of Volunteers — a anccesa which gave me more pleasure than any i have had since. 1 went [through] the campaign, was elated,... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1888 - 512 pages
...bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher...was elated, ran for the' Legislature the same year (183 2), and was beaten — the only time I have ever been beaten by the people. The next and three... | |
 | MELVILLE D. LANDON - 1893 - 672 pages
...twenty-one I came to Illinois, Macon county. Then I got to New Salem, * * * where I remained a year as a sort of clerk In a store. Then came the Black Hawk war; and I was elected captain of a volunteer company, a success that gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher...people. The next and three succeeding biennial elections 1 was elected to the Legislature. I was not a candidate afterwards. During this legislative period... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store. Then came the Black Hawk...me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went the campaign, was elated, ran for the legislature the same year (1832), and was beaten — the only... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store. Then came the Black Hawk...me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went the campaign, was elated, ran for the legislature the same year (1832), and was beaten — the only... | |
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Volunteers — a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. 
