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Title: The true Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slaves Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
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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m of twohundred and thirty-eight acres for one hundred andeighteen pounds and gave his note in payment. Thiswas Abraham Lincolns second home, and there he livedfor four years. We know little about his childhood, except that itwas of continual privation in a cheerless home, forThomas Lincoln evidently found it difficult to supplyhis family with food and clothing. Mr. Lincoln seldomtalked freely of those days, even to his most intimatefriends, although from remarks which he dropped fromtime to time they judged that the impressions of his firstyears were indelible upon his temperament and con-tributed to his melancholy. On one occasion, beingasked if he remembered anything about the War of1812, he said that when a child, returning from fishingone day, he met a soldier in the road and, having beenadmonished by his mother that everybody should begood to the soldiers, he gave him his fish. Thomas and Nancy Lincoln had three children. Sarah,the eldest, at the age of fourteen married Aaron 20
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THE MAN AND HIS KINDRED Griggsby and died in childbirth a year later. Thomas,the third child, died when only three days old. When Abraham was about seven years old his fatherbecame restless and went across the river into Indianato look for a new home. It has been represented bysome of Lincolns biographers that the motive of hisremoval was his dislike of slavery; that he wished toremove his son from its influence; but Lincoln attributedthe determination to other reasons, particularly hisfathers difficulty in securing a valid title to his land. Itis quite as probable that, like other men of his tempera-ment, he thought he could do better in a new place;like other rolling stones, that he could gather more mossin a new soil. He found a purchaser for his farm whogave him in payment twenty dollars in money and tenbarrels of whiskey, which Thomas Lincoln loaded upona flat-boat, with his household furniture, floating it downKnob Creek to Rolling Fork, to Salt River, to the OhioRiver, and down

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