Identifier: shortlifeofabrah00moor (find matches)
Title: Short life of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Moores, Charles W. (Charles Washington), 1862-1923
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
Publisher: Boston New York (etc.) : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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l-ers, — men of the world, some of them, — from NewOrleans and St. Louis, or from Pittsburg and NewYork. Again, on board the river craft, the youth sawcompanies of slaves, chained together like convicts,bound for the slave market farther south, and the sightwas a continued torment to him. It was as ferryman that he earned his first dollar.He was eighteen years old. Two men asked him to rowtheir trunks out to the passing steamer and each paidhim half a dollar. He was bewildered by the suddenpossession of so much money. I could scarcely be-lieve my eyes, he said afterward. You may thinkit was a very little thing, but it was a most importantincident in my life. I could scarcely believe that I, apoor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day. I wasa more hopeful and confident boy from that time.These glimpses of the great world filled him with aneager desire to try his own fortune on the river, andthe next year he and a companion took a flatboat cargo^or a Mr. Gentry to New Orleans.
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THE BOY LINCOLN READING BY THE LIGHT OF THE FIRE (After a painting by Eastman Johnson made in 1868) A STRANGE EDUCATION 21 As schools were rare and the need to labor pressing,Abraham Lincolns whole school life covered less thana single year. Many of his teachers knew little morethan their pupils. But some of them, though possessedof scanty book-learning, had what was better, a know-ledge of the outside world and a public spirit thatmade them leaders of men. A mile and a half from Little Pigeon Creek aschool was taught for a year or two by one of thesemen of affairs, Azel W. Dorsey. It must have beenbecause in winter time even the busiest of men hadleisure that Azel Dorsey was willing to teach, for hewas one of the most active public men in the county.He had been coroner, and at this time was countytreasurer. It was in his cabin that the people met tomake Rockport the county seat, and in his cabin thefirst courts were held. He was one of the men whogave money to build the first bridges

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