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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lincoln , Abraham 1809 - (search)
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-
Sixteenth President of the United States, was born in Hardin county, Ky., Feb. 12, 1809.
His ancestors were Quakers in Berks county, Pa. His parents, born in Virginia, emigrated to Kentucky, and in 1816 went to Indiana.
Having had about one year's schooling in the aggregate, he went as a hired hand on a flat-boat to New Orleans when he was nineteen years of age. He made himself so useful to his employer that he gave him charge as clerk of a store and mill at New Salem, Ill. He commanded a company in the Black Hawk War. Appointed postmaster at Salem, he began to study law, was admitted to practice in 1836, and began his career as a lawyer at Springfield.
He rose rapidly in his profession, became a leader of the Whig party in Illinois, and was a popular though homely speaker at political
Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln. meetings.
He was elected to Congress in 1847, and was there distinguished for his outspoken anti-slavery views.
In 1858 he was a c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Palatines. (search)