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Title: The real Lincoln : a portrait
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Co.
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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THE FAMILY RECORD IN THOMAS LINCOLns BIBLE^CHIEFLY IN ABRAHAM LINCOLNS HAND A piece Is missing from the upper right-hand corner. The entries shown at the lower left-hand corner are from the back of the sheet. THE LINCOLN FAMILY BIBLE RECORD 33 but one sheet and was found by the author many yearsago in the hands of a daughter of Dennis Hanks. Thesheet had been detached from between the leaves of thebook and had been folded in several places so long thatthe paper was gradually wearing away at the folds and thesection in the upper right-hand corner — a piece about aninch and a half square — was missing. Possibly the latterwas that part of the page which bore the record of themarriage of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, althoughit is likewise possible that inscribed therein was the dateof the birth of Thomas Lincoln as the head of the house-hold. Within recent years documentary evidence hascome to light establishing the fact that the marriage tookplace June 12, 1806. But did Mr. Lincol

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