Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Aaron Gigsby” in chapter 4 of William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik:
... nature, but that would be a narrow view to take of history.
If we expect to know Lincoln thoroughly we must be prepared to take him as he really was.
In 1826 Abe's sister Sarah was married to Aaron Gigsby , and at the wedding the Lincoln family sang a song composed in honor of the event by Abe himself.
It is a tiresome doggerel and full of painful rhymes.
I reproduce it here from the manuscript fur...
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