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Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Nichols, Clifton M. (Clifton Melvin), 1830-1903 McKinley, William, 1843-1901. Oration on Abraham Lincoln Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Abraham Lincoln Knox, William, 1789-1825. Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York City Springfield, Ohio Chicago, Ill. : Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick
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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d feet high, and surrounded by an expanse of fertile fieldsand pastures. The Sangamon river skirted the base of the bluff, and presented afine view from the summit. North of the town was the old mill over the damof which Lincoln had taken his fiatboat. Of the surrounding country Judge ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 51 Herndon writes: The country in almost every direction is diversified by alter-nate stretches of hills and level lands, with streams between each, struggling toreach the river. The hills are bearded with timber—oak, hickory, walnut, ashand elm. Below them are stretches of rich alluvial bottom land, and the eyeranges over a vast expanse of foliage, the monotony of which is relieved by th-ealternating swells and depressions of the landscape. Between peak and peak,through its bed of limestone, sand and clay, sometimes kissing the feet of onebluff and then hugging the other, rolls the Sangamon river. Fine sceneryoften influences for good an impressionable and appreciative young person. .
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NEW SALEM STREET. The site of New Salem, laid out in 1828, is now a desert. In 1836, it is saidto have had twenty houses and one hundred inhabitants. How it vanished,one writer observes, like a mist in the morning, to what distant place itsinhabitants dispersed, and what became of the abodes they left behind, shall bequestions for the local historian. One of these inhabitants, only twenty-eightyears afterward, became an honored occupant of the White House. Lincoln was nominally Offutts clerk, but he had a few days of leisure beforethe goods arrived from St. Louis, which time he employed in making the acquain- 52 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. tance of as many of the people as possible. In the interval the annual election:came around. A Mr. Graham was clerk, but his assistant was absent, and it wasnecessary to find a man to fill his place. Lincoln, a tall young man, hadalready concentrated on himself the attention of the people of the town, and Mr.Grraham easily discovered him. Asking him if he coul

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