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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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e him, togetherwith his sons, further on.(*) Mordecai Lincoln became near neighbor to George Boone, who camefrom England with eleven children. He had such pleasant memoriesof his old home in the valley of the Exe that he named hisnew home Exeter, after the old town whose cathedral bells hadcharmed him with their music. He found that many of his neighborswere Germans who could not speak the English language. Fartherdown the valley of the Schuylkill the settlers were mostly fromWales, who gave Welsh names to the towns. In Gwynedd were fourbrothers—Thomas, Robert, Owen, and Cadwallader Evans. They couldtrace their ancestral line back to Lludd, King of Britain, who foughtthe Romans when Julius Caesar Avas Emperor of Rome. () Cadwal-lader was the youngest of the brothers. He became a preacher afterjoining the Friends. Before leaving England he married Ellen Morris,of Bryn Gwyn, which means White Hill. They had a beautiful andqueenly daughter, Sarah. We need not think it strange that John
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