The life of Abraham Lincoln - drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, (14779687304)

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Title: The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc.
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Lincoln History Society
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library



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ner-ous nature, and had the universal respect of the community.He was a South Carolinian by birth, but had lived manyyears in Kentucky before coming to Illinois. Rutledge cameof a distinguished family: one of his ancestors signed theDeclaration of Independence; another was chief justice of theSupreme Court of the United States by appointment ofWashington, and another was a conspicuous leader in theAmerican Congress. The third of the nine children in the Rutledge householdwas a daughter, Ann Mayes, born in Kentucky, January 7,1813. When Lincoln first met her she was nineteen yearsold, and as fresh as a flower. Many of those who knew herat that time have left tributes to her beauty and gentleness,and even to-day there are those living who talk of her withmoistened eyes and softened tones. She was a beautifulgirl, says her cousin, James McGrady Rutledge, and asbright as she was beautiful. She was well educated for thatearly day, a good conversationalist, and always gentle and a; a> in
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ELECTIONEERING IN ILLINOIS U7 cheerful. A girl whose company people liked. So fair amaid was not, of course, without suitors. The most deter-mined of those who sought her hand was one John McNeill,a young man who had arrived in New Salem from NewYork soon after the founding of the town. Nothing wasknown of his antecedents, and no questions were asked. Hewas understood to be merely one of the thousands who hadcome west in search of fortune. That he was intelligent,industrious, and frugal, with a good head for business, wasat once apparent; for in four years from his first appearancein the settlement, besides earning a half-interest in a generalstore, McNeill had acquired a large farm a few miles northof New Salem. His neighbors believed him to be worthabout twelve thousand dollars. John McNeill was an unmarried man—at least so he repre-sented himself to be—and very soon after becoming a resi-dent of New Salem he formed the acquaintance of Ann Rut-ledge, then a girl of seventeen. It