The story of Abraham Lincoln - or the journey from the log cabin to the White House (1909) (14781535694)

Identifier: storyofabraham1900ingrid (find matches)
Title: The story of Abraham Lincoln : or the journey from the log cabin to the White House
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Gridley, Eleanor, 1846-1944
Subjects: Gridley, Eleanor, 1846-1944 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : L.W. Walter Co.
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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oined the minister in his final prayer, while down the brawny cheeksof many a strong and rough man tears were silently coursing. So impressive a scene could not be forgotten by even the youngestones present. To the grave and silent and impressionable boy the scenewas never erased—it fairly burned into his plastic brain and foreverremained a vivid and living picture. Abraham had accomplished what he considered a duty on his part,and had honored his mothers memory, and was therefore not sowretched and grief stricken as before. The summer months brought to the children some comfort. Theywere neither freezing nor starving, the warm days gladdened their lone-ly little hearts and the wild fruits fed them. The children had had notraining in household industries, because the mother had had no con-veniences to do with. From their father they had not received anexample of thrift or labor, because he did not work. From his fatherand through the influence and association that surrounded Abraham
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HENRY CLAY. From a portrait in possession of his family. The greatest compromiser of the anti-slavery era.