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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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Jiemost advanced pupils finished it, he started them once more in Avords ofone syllable. () Xo other book was studied. He did not teach writing.We have seen Thomas Lincolns oldest brother inheriting: all theproperty of their fathers estate. The law i entail was no longer inforce, but the titles of land which had been granted by Virginia to in-dividuals before Kentucky became a State were not always clear. Set-tlers, after building their houses and improving the land, frequently foundthey were not the legal owners of the property. Under such a conditionof affairs people were moving to Indiana, where they could buy land for $2an acre, and obtain an unclouded title from the United States. Slavery 24 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. existed in Kentucky. Poor men were conscious of an assumed supe-riority on the part of those who owned slaves. The lands in Indianawere fertile. It was a free State, in which rich and poor alike wererespected. Thomas Lincoln, in common with many others in Ken-
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LITTI.E MOUND MEETINGHOUSE, HODGENSVILLE, KY. (From a photograph taken by the author, October, 1891.) tucky, resolved to live where there would be no distinction between richand poor, and where he would have a better chance to get on in theworld. He had bargained for the Knob Creek farm, built a cabin, dug awell, and cleared a portion of the land. He was fortunate enough to finda settler who would purchase the improvements. He took in payment400 gallons of whiskey, which wa.s everywhere a marketable commod-ity. () Kearly everybody drank spirituous liquors, in accordance withthe custom of the times. Instead of being disreputable to drink, it wasregarded as ungracious not to drink, especially when invited to do so.Only when people became senseless or quarrelsome Avas the drinkingregarded as harmful. Next to silver coin, whiskey came nearest to being-legal tender in business. At the junction of Knob Creek with Rolling Fork, Mr. Lincolnconstructed a boat. The barrels of liquor were placed

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