Identifier: lifeofabrahamlin4913nich (find matches)
Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Nichols, Clifton M. (Clifton Melvin), 1830-1903 McKinley, William, 1843-1901. Oration on Abraham Lincoln Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Abraham Lincoln Knox, William, 1789-1825. Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York City Springfield, Ohio Chicago, Ill. : Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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grave is marked by the stone under flag.) US that the Indian word from which the name of the state was derived wasIllini, signifying the Land of full-grown men. Thomas Lincoln moved at least three times in search of a location, and finallysettled on Goosenest Prairie, in Coles county, near Farmington, where he died,in 1851, at the ripe old age of seventy-three. He had mortgaged his little farmof forty acres for two hundred dollars, but Abraham had paid the debt and takena deed of the land, which contained the clause, With a reservation of a lifeestate therein to them or the survivor of them. As soon as Abraham got up alittle in the world, he began to send his stepmother money, and continued to doso until his own death. Sarah Bush Lincoln died April 10, 1869. It was in April, 1830, that Lincoln left home for good. He did not go far,but sought work in the neighborhood among the settlers. Rail-splitting seemedto be the favorite kind of work. In March, 1831, he was fortunate in meeting a
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LINCOLN CROSSING THE STBEAM WITH THE DOG.

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