Identifier: reminiscencesaboralinc (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
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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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ent events.She lives with her daughter, Mrs.Mary Kalbfell. Miss Mary Chapman, who wasborn at 1632 S. 6th St., on Nov. 30,1854, will observe her birthday inConcord, N.C, where she has livedfor 73 years. She is an aunt of ;S. Elwood Griffiths, of 1217 Lin-dale ave., Drexel Hill. Miss Chapman started teachingschool here when she was 18. Whenishe was 27, she went with her par-jents to Concord, N. C, for a visitI and remained there to teach after; she had aided a small boy with his; lessons and he asked her to stayj and teach school in his town. She; became a teacher at a small mis-jsion school then opearted by the(Freedom Board of the Presbyteri-;an Church of Philadelphia, nowi Barber-Scotia College owned andi operated by the Board of Nationalj Missions of the Presbyterianj Church of the U. S. A. She taught for 32 years. Al-though confined to a wheel chair,Miss Chapman is active in churchwork and teaches a Sunday Schoolclass every week. I RAMIN, HENRY B. Lincoln As Americas Legendary Hero
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IDA M. TARB&LL In the Footsteps of the Lincolns,by Ida M. Tarbell. Harper & Bros. Intimate Character Sketches ofAbraham Lincoln, by Henry B.R->nkin. J. B. Lippincott Co. England has King Arthur; France,Roland; Spain, Le Cld; Germany,Frederick Barbarossa; Russia, Peterthe Great; Italy, Garibaldi; Scanda-navia, Gustavus Adolphus. Everynation of the world has its hero, his-torical or legendary, generally acombination. America lacks so generaly accept-ed a national patron. We are toonear In point of time to our great.Not that there have not been candi-dates for this honor; and to datethree have appeared—George Wash-ington! Abraham Lincoln and Theo-dore Roosevelt. And at present thereIs by no means negligible party whowould exalt Woodrow Wilson to thatplace. Of the three, or four, AbrahamLincoln most nearly comes up* to therequirements. George Washington,it is to well-known, was an aristo-crat.. There has been too consciousan effort on the part Rooseveltsrelatives and friends

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