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Title: From pioneer home to the White House : life of Abraham Lincoln: boyhood, youth, manhood, assassination, death
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898 Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. 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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here that he met Nancy Hanks, niece of JosephHanks, whom he courted and afterwards married,thereby getting, not only a trade, but a wife, also.The latter, however, was much more of an acquisitionthan the former; for he was never competent to doany but the roughest work at his trade. When hewas married to Nancy he set up housekeeping in amore miserable abode at Elizabethtown than the logcabin on Nolin Creek. From this shanty, into whichhe took his bride, he soon removed to the other shantyon the aforesaid Creek. This is how and why Thomas Lincoln, father ofAbraham, became the proprietor of the rickety habi-tation in Hardin county, that we have described to thereader. Here three children were born to him; Sarah,the eldest, Abraham next, and Thomas the third. Thelatter died in infancy. Thomas Lincoln could neither read nor write. Hehad not been to school a single day in his life. Hiswife could read passably, but she could not write suffi-ciently to undertake a letter. She could sign her
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BlKTHlLACE OF AbKAHAjM LINCOLN. BIRTHPLACE. 29 name to a document, and perhaps do a little more in thesame line; while her husband could only make his mark. You can learn, said his bride to him, soon after thetwain became one flesh. Never too old to learn. Thats a question, responded her husband, whowas one of the easy bodies, who could scarcely thinkit worth while for a man to go to school, even to hiswife, at twenty-eight years of age. Its not a question at all, responded Mrs. L.You can learn to write your name, if nothing more,and that will be a great improvement over makingyour mark. I can teach you as much as that. At length the good-natured husband consented totake lessons of his wife in penmanship; and he ac-tually set to work to accomplish his purpose. Themost that he accomplished, however, was to learn towrite his name so that ingenious people could read it.He lifted himself out of that ignorant and unambi-tious class who are content to make their X. At this time Thomas Linco

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