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Title: Life and works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Miller, Marion Mills, 1864-1949, ed Whitney, Henry Clay, 1831-1905. Lincoln the citizen
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : Lincoln Centenary Association
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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Hanks, whose home hadbeen broken up by the death of his uncle andaunt. As must be apparent, a house presided over bya child of eleven years could not be expected tobe strongly suggestive of home comforts. That Thomas Lincoln himself was not obliv-ious of this is evident from the fact that he gath-ered together what little capital he could, sprucedup a little, and in the ensuing fall set off on a visitto the scenes of his youth in Kentucky, to pro-cure a wife to solace his lonely hours and to serveas a mother to his neglected children. As I have said, when he formed his alliancewith Nancy Hanks, he had paid attention to Sal-lie Bush. Sallie had married one Johnston, whoafterwards became the jailer of Hardin County,an office then held in higher honor than it is now.Now Mrs. Johnston was not only a rare woman,as the sequel fully attests, but she also was amost excellent housekeeper, and a faithful anddevoted mother. Thomas was a shrewd ob-server, and the death of Johnston about the time
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HENRY C. WHITNEY YOUTH 35 he had lost his own companion giving him oppor-tunity, with characteristic energy and directnessof purpose he resolved to lay close siege to theaffections of the widow and force an early capitu-lation. Accordingly, upon his arrival in Eliza-bethtown, he at once repaired to the home of thefair widow, who lived with her two girls andone boy. He must have arranged matters satis-factorily in one interview, for the next day hemarried the widow. As a wedding present hepaid all her small debts, the amount being abouttwelve dollars. On the succeeding day thesecond-hand bride, the second-hand bridegroom,three children, and a comfortable load of furni-ture and bedding were en route to the new home,where the two neglected, motherless, and lonelychildren were doing the best they could, pain-fully to wear out the time till the father shouldreturn with the surprise that he had probablypromised them. Sallie Bush, who was thus predestined to be asecond mother to the great Pr

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