Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Indiana” in chapter 1 of John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History:
...school building common in the early West, in which many a statesman gained the first rudiments of knowledge.
Very often Webster's Elementary spelling book was the only text-book.
Abraham's first Indiana school was probably held five years before Gentryville was located and a store established there.
Until then it was difficult, if not impossible, to obtain books, slates, pencils, pen, ink, and pap...
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Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
† | Indiana (Indiana, United States) | 4,450 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
Indiana (Pennsylvania, United States) | 85 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Indiana (New Mexico, United States) | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Indiana (Iowa, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Indiana (New Mexico, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Indiana (Pennsylvania, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.