Show J Bi Birthplace place te of 1 t. t q PL by Y N Means Squalid lid t Anc now ow 1 h ere iere h liff i i br lIght ru fu tl 1 n f la t j pl place ce Qt or Abraham LIncon not Jh the tiie pItIful h hut mit t of po erty that has been described I lugubriously by historians nor was the great emancipator of hum humble humble ble and poor parentage A letter hook of Capt John printer of Philadelphia and wealthy t er coupled with with- witha a research made matl r rt n- n by byn a n n newspaperman of Kerr Kerr- tuck tucky brings out plainly these thes LIons Since the recent discovery of the Important work rendered during the Revolution by lIy Captain Dunlap and Lieutenant Claypoole laypoole printers of the tb first daily dally newspaper In America and officio official I printers pi of the Continental con ron congress congress gr gress ss Join John Barr Darr Connecticut historian and a D member of th the Historical nl of ot Pennsylvania Pennsyl has bias followed the documents Inc doc of Dunlap and revealed ic through 1 IIi his study man many Interesting facts of historical value The Tue latest source of Information that has come conic to notice Is the letter letter hook book of ot Dunlap loan loaned cd the Historical ith society society so so- clety by the noted printers printer's great great- at- at grandson George Chapman hapman Weight height of Haymarket Va n formerly a Philadelphia Philadel phia n attorney The letters a are aie 1 t the h correspondence correspondence cor cor- of I Dunlap and tour tOil I oth other wealthy men who traveled tra to the theer er very spot In t Kentucky where Lincoln family came from Virginia In oi- oi order er erto to Invest ID In land hind there Dispels Legend By comparing the tile reports of these men then t to their Philadelphia associate associates and Ond the documentary evidence evidence- ed In a look honk complied compiled by hy Louis A Warren a 0 newspaperman of n lIle t ly Mr Flair Barr huts has drawn conclusions which he points out nut as fiS adequate to dispel the popular belief In th the poverty pov par erty legend Abraham Lincoln needed no such tale talc to enhance his bis greatness Ills rise from obscurity ity was ml mighty enough start I rom from roni the I Kentucky frontier frontier li It Is not necessary to fable I hIs bis beginning from a 8 low level le The llie correspondence Dunlap offers I testifies to the richness of the hind IlInd the beautiful resources s of the country and the splendid type of mon who pop po- I d the section John Jolln Dunlap his I oilier brother James Jumes eorge e I William Wil it liam Orr rr the engineer and Michael 1 S then treasurer of the rite United I States were partners In purchasing I acres of or f the Kentucky lu-ky lu land IlInd I Luler liler I S sun still visited town ten fell tul le nun j the lie iI Lincoln birth birth- h. h e. to i on m his Ills fathers father's IraI i ns I At A tin tin- mine lillie UI tutu jinn these who t-hii ilu IlIn long limy f Phili Phil Phil- hil I i Ii Ia iu jl it h. h the flu Ohio In riv vi UI I l. l lc h n I h t j Fran fort l Ky jy y Abr Ab IR m hj l Lincoln col cr of his his' namesake who who became Pi of or tIll the s t ft Ills rc comfortable hOi uY In Ii for the uie sa-uie purpose purpose I to to invest est In th the n newly opened land landt t Ab Abraham had extensive ex ex- A holdings s in Virginia and purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased large tracts in the new coun coun- I try H H W v was f poor e year was SI jI j Indians Killed d Gra i f r- r I t o i n t t e- 4 JI Cd v Al r I L Lincoln n oln In trag trag j ell r. r e. e 4 ti was lb anc an and andrIch rich but dangerous hostile In I Lincoln lost his liby the tom In the yei that hat George e. e JY s lIed In 4 Similar perfie per per- ha Liaf 1 saI saW fie massacre JU sr u t tells if story o 1 s h In a n a 1 f I letter itter to hl his bol brother her who find ad returned ned to Phila Phila- dolphin temporarily with plans plans to re re- e rno his family to the tile new country The The letter warning hlin to remain North 1 ort h r n reads alJ Dear bear Brother I I I. am now on my way to the Falls I t am nm sorry I have stifle some very very unhappy news to tell you you you- that that- thatis Is the death who was killed by hy the Indians on th the 1 th of August 1 t is-t within fl five ve miles of this pla luau luau-c e and 15 from the Falls Falls W. 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W Daniels the lawyer er was killed at nt th same Instant Mr Johnston the clerk cierI of the lower county was wounded In Inthe inthe the same company Mr was shot tomahawked and scalped Ira iray Pray drive away nil all notions of rei returning to this country All that i Is to he lie IE got In it is not equal to the danger dunger that attends at at- tends rends living in It It to When hien Abraham Lincoln met his death lentil at al the hands of the Indians his oldest son Mordecai who was fifteen years old ut Hi the time avenged ened his bus death as liS an fin Indian stooped over to take rake the thit pioneers pioneer's rs r's scalp Thomas Lin coin fat father her of thin the President witnessed wit wit- nS n'S ld the scene ne lIe He was ten years year an old at the ht time The entire estate state went to Lincoln under the law of primogeniture and ond consisted mainly of r acres cres of land In Virginia Vir VIr- ginia and lind In I n Kentucky a considerable estate for fill a n mo ln moving people struggling II with h poverty Father Owned Land So It was that Thomas Lincoln was to earn I his livelihood Ih He tie rose ruse from froni laborer In to carpenter surveyor soldier farmer and property owner III In Eliza Eli he lie was employed ll t l- l KV Sli Samuel n a substantial bu business man manof of the territory who Vho was a close friend of John Dunlap und and who wrote ninny letters to the There he met Nunc Nancy Nuncy Hanks flanks ann ano later uter built hullt the tile cabin where Lincoln th thi President was horn horn n a new cabin antias md anti as well constructed as liS an un average house of the time and section section section-on on n a farm farni ton hn miles from at nt Dee Deeds s in the flue courts flIrts there show that the farm which JutS has been ben Identified us as the site of or Lincoln's antI and from om which the cabin enshrined In the Lincoln memorial was taken consisted of If more limn acres acres n a consider aide uhle plot and uund not a 8 few acres as has hils been told Tire Tl-e farm furm was WIlS purchased l ell ellIn In 1808 with 1200 U In cash and und other subsequent payments lie De owned 1 in 1 addition records show 2150 acres urrea of ol Kentucky lands lunds Leonard Leonard H. H ArnoldIn Arnold In the Philadelphia Record |