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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 28 0 Browse Search
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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 2. (search)
his own fortune in the world. A man named Denton Offutt, one of a class of local traders and specufellow. He was therefore just the sort of man Offutt needed for one of his trading enterprises, andLincoln himself relates somewhat in detail how Offutt engaged him and the beginning of the venture: iding in Macon County, hired themselves to Denton Offutt to take a flatboat from Beardstown, Illinoed him so firmly in the esteem of his employer Offutt that the latter, already looking forward to him. This was in July or August, 1831. Neither Offutt nor his goods had yet arrived, and during his brisk at New Salem, for the commercial zeal of Offutt led him to increase his venture by renting there told how the neighborhood talk, inflamed by Offutt's fulsome laudation of his clerk, made Jack Ar probably had its influence. He tells us that Offutt's business was failing, and his quick judgment Lincoln had inspired while he was a clerk in Offutt's store, and the enthusiastic support he had r[4 more...]