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Title: Abraham Lincoln before 1860
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Rutledge, Ann, d. 1835
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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ad heard. I took agreat fancy to one of the girls; and whenthey were gone I thought of her a greatdeal, and one day when I was sitting outin the sun by the house I wrote out astory in my mind. I thought I took myfathers horse and followed the wagon,and finally I found it, and they were sur-prised to eee me. I talked with the girland persuaded her to elope with me; andthat night I put her on my horse and wostarted off across the prairie. After—several hours we came to a camp; andwhen we rode up w# found it was theone we had left a few hours before, andwe went in. The. nexit night we triedagain, and the same thing happened—the horse came back to the same place;and then we concluded that we ouarht not! to elope. I stayed until I had persuadedher father to give her to me. I alwaysimnt to wrlite that story out and pub-lish it, and I fc.^aran once; but I concludedit was not much of a story. But I thinkthat was the beirinnlne of love with me.—Ida M. Tarbell, in McClures Magazine. s - I
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/I VA KNEW LINCOLN IN YOUTH k***-kir*i(1rt<ick-k1rk**-k*ir*-tnk-k*-k***-k* kkkkk irkk kkkk krk *-»»*••• » * * Aged Lady Now Living in California Recalls *t Times of Long Ago \S0L * 1 -¥-¥-¥-?-¥-¥-¥-¥■¥■-¥-» *¥¥■**¥■¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ ¥^¥-¥-9- ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥■*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥-¥-»♦ Twenty miles out from Los An-geles, Cad., on the seashore road, ina humble, four-roomed house, is anold woman who Abraham Lincoln wasvery fond of and who he teasinglyoamed Quinine TO years ago, when,a store clerk la New Salem, he board-ed for $1 a week under her fathersroof. Mrs. Vlenua Lyster has just cele-brated her 89th birthday. A statelyold woman, she Is still free of stepand straight of vision, though hermemory has begun to falter, recollec-tion to waver and down the long vistaof years and day-marks of her girl-hood are blurred. This long-ago friend of Lincoln sitsIn her sons hotr.e at Burnett and tellsmany stories of the Great Com

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