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Title: The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lea, J. Henry (James Henry), 1846-1914 Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert), 1858-1921, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln family Lincoln, Samuel, 1619?-1690
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ok up a life of hard manual labour as a farm boy, inthe early course of which we find the only record of any aidor help from his paternal relatives, as we learn that a yearof his youth was passed at Watauga on the Holston River inTennessee, with his uncle, Isaac Lincoln; but we may gatherthat the bread of dependence eaten at the board of his rela-tive was stale and profitless, as we so soon find him again inWashington County among those already proved more kindthan kin, and from whom he never separated far or for longagain. With a courage and energy that have been so little appre-ciated, he not only supported himself by his rude and ill-requited tasks, but learned, and apparently learned well, the Had the best set of tools in Washington County . . . was a good car-penter for those days (Letter of Dr. C. C. Graham, see Tarbell, vol. i, p. 6). Was a good carpenter (Letter of Rev. T. N. Robertson, Pastor of LittlePigeon Church, Cent. Mag., November, 1886, Nicolay and Hay, vol. i, p. 18).
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THOMAS LINCOLN — THE MAN 125 trade of a carpenter, at the shop of Joseph Hanks, the brotherof his future wife, whose name may serve to remind us thatthis trade was the one dignified beyond all others throughoutChristendom. He had in some way managed, during this period, to pickup the rudiments of an education, as we learn by finding himsigning his own name to his marriage bond in a firm, boldhand, not altogether unlike that so characteristic of his emi-nent son. He had also shown himself so thrifty with hissmall savings that, at the age of twenty-five, he had purchaseda farm destined to be the future birthplace of his illustriousson and to be conserved as such for a national domain forever. Near Springfield in Washington County, pretty NancyHanks had grown up, since the death of her parents in 1793,with her aunt, Lucy Shipley, whose worthy husband, RichardBerry, had become her guardian,^ and probably Thomas Lin-coln had been a frequent visitor, if not often a resident, inhis house,

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