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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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tbe said that they have dragged hispurely private affairs to light in a verytactless if not an indelicate manner.Moreover, many of their conclusionsreflecting on his parents and some re-garding his wife have been shown bythorough investigation to be untrue.For example, Herndon says that Lin-coln absented himself on his weddingnight. As careful a biographer as IdaM. Tarbell denies this and gives theword of numerous personal friends ofboth Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln to proveher statement. In the same mannerseveral of Herndons allegations con-cerning Thomas and Nancy HanksLincoln have been proved untrue bythe actual records brought to light. The simple facts are that Lincolnsparents, his early life, his education,his courtships and his domestic lifewere about such as fall to the lot ofthe average man born, reared and liv-ing his adult life in a similar environ-1ment. His stories were about such aswere told by other frontiersmen, law-yersand poilticiaus In his day, except vim GHT 1:..S(H*fJ ^«
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He was not insensible to femininecharms. that Lincolns were better and moreto the point. He might have been alittle taller and more homely thanmost, but if so what of it? There wasnothing about all these circumstancesto differentiate him from his kind orto explain him. They were the shellof the oyster, but gave no indicationsof the pearl inside. Yet there are beautiful things andsuch as can be spoken of with all pro-priety and respect in the love affairsand the home life of Abraham Lin-coln. His despair at the death of AnnRutledge, his agony over the snowsbeating on her grave. the fears of hisfriends for his sanity, which went tothe length of their taking precautionsagainst his possible suicide—all thispresents a touching and pathetic pic-ture. As for the affair with Mary Owens,there is nothing in it worthy a pass-ing notice except that it showed a finesense of honor on the part of Lincolnand an unselfish thouchtfulness forthe happiness of his future wife. About the courtship with t

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