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Title: Biographies and stories of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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as an unlikely Lincoln-hater. Had he written abook which praised Lincoln, reviewers and critics would havefound it easy to explain.They would have pointedto Masterss roots in Lin-coln country. Thoughborn in Garrett, Kansas,in 1869, Masters grew upnear the site which hasprompted more senti-mental revery about Lin-coln than any other, NewSalem. That village be-came a ghost town evenin Lincolns life, butnearby Petersburg,which took its village lifefrom New Salems death,survived. There, and inLewistown, Mastersspent his youth. The ro-mance of this SangamonRiver country capti-vated even Masters. HisSpoon River Anthology(1914), which madeMasters famous as apoet, included an oft-quoted epitaph for AnnRutledge: Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; With malice toward none, with charity for all. Out of me the for giveness of millions toward millions, And the beneficent face of a nation Shining with justice and truth. I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds,
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LINCOLN ^WASHINGTONNVMBErV- 1909 From the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum FIGURE 1. Before World War I, popular magazines dealt rev-erentially with Lincoln and Washington. Debunking was notthe fashion. Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln,Wedded to him, not through union,But through separation.Bloom forever, 0 Republic.From the dust of my bosom! A closer look at Masterss early years reveals that he wasboth a part of his environment and a man at odds with it. Hisgrandfather was a Democrat with little sympathy for theNorth during the Civil War. Edgar Lee Masterss father,Hardin W. Masters, ran away to enlist in the army during thewar, but his father brought him back. Hardin Masters be-came a lawyer and dabbled in Democratic politics. He crossedthe prohibition-minded Republicans of Lewistown on morethan one occasion. Edgar Lee Masterscontinued the family tra-dition of affiliation withthe Democratic party. Hetoo became a lawyer, aftergraduation from KnoxCollege in Galesburg.and es

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