Show birthplace of lincoln by no means squalid I 1 and now there hue bus been brou broadt ht to light practical evidence that the birth place of abraham lincoln was not the pitiful not but of poverty that bus ha been described lugubriously by Listor List faM nor as the great emancipator of bum 1 bit and poor parentage A letter book of john dunlap historic printer of t philadelphia la and wealthy landra landan tr r coupled with a research made recently by a newspaperman ot of ken lucky beings bungs out plainly I 1 since the recent dincov y y of the important work rendered during the 1 by captain dunlap and lieutenant claypoole printer printers of the first dally newspaper in america and official printer printers of the continental con gress john barr connecticut historian and a member of the at society of Penn sylvai val la its has followed the doc doe of dunlap and revealed through his big study many liste interesting fart facts of 0 historical value the latest source of in formation information tint lias has come to notice la Is the letter book of dunlap loaned the historical so clety by the noted printer 9 great grandson grandion george chapman hapman weight of haymarket va in formerly a Ihl ladel phia attorney torney nt the letters are lie like cor 1 of dunlap and fear a otter yen hy by men who traveled to the very spot la in hen kentucky tucky where family came rim r virginia in order ito i to invest in land thre dispels poverty legend 1 comparing the report reports of thes these men own to it gieir air I 1 associates and the documentary evidence I 1 resent pit d in a book compiled by I 1 ouli A warm warren a newspaper into of flodeen ville ky mr Us darr has ha drawn concha ions which u e points out as adequate to dispel 1 the popular belief in the poverty lend legend abraham lincoln it needed seeded no such tale tole to enhance his ht greatness great nesi nest ills rise from obscurity was mighty enough starting from the kentucky bluegrass blue grais front frontier ler it Is not to fable table MA bez beginning innIng from a low level the corresponded ce dunlap testifies to the richness rich nees of the lanil land the beautiful resource a of the country and the splendid type of men inen who pop elated the section john dunlap his broiler james george wit III ham orr off the ens engineer Ineer ani St michael ichael Ifil legas then treasurer treasur rr of the he united fidalei were partners in purchasing acres of the land later son 0 o visited etli bosn on ten mile pilles binm the birthplace to carry in his hi father at the amine that thew these nin men who dwile 0 1 h 1 if ft lenry lr nry y irmis 11 I 1 adert ahra voss v I 1 I 1 tio still 1 ohp alv 1 er r I 1 t M n 1161 h hr I 1 1 abraham of bis his namesake who became president Preat dent of the united still states left his comfortable home in to virginia for the same purpose to invest la in the newly opened land of p promise abraham lincoln had ex len save holdings la in lir gials end cod purchased large tracts in the aw new coun try he lie was not poor abe jear year was 1733 indiana killed grandfather again the I 1 were irked with Abr abrahama ahara lincoln in trot edy the country was beautiful and rich but dangerous from in deans lincoln lost Ms his life by the toni tom chawk in the same year that george heightley ly was killed in a similar per limps the same game indian ma massacre sacre jamee james dunlap tells the story tit of Height heightley ly 9 death in to a letter to ba hie alitha brother who had returned to delphta temporarily with plan plant to remove his family to the new country the letter warning him to remain north beads dear dent trot brother ber I 1 am now on my way to the falls I 1 am borry I t have gome some very unhappy news to tell yoa you that Is the death of mr sir keightly who was wa killed by the indians oa on the uth of august within five miles of this place and 15 from the w daniels the lawyer was killed at th sanie same instant mr air johnston Joh naton the cleric clerk of the lower county was wounded in the same company air heightley ly wr abot tt ot tomahawked and scalped pray drive away all notions of returning to this country alt all that Is 13 to be pt got in it li not eual equal to the daner danger that at tends living in it when Abra abraham hata lincoln met his death at the hands of the indians his oldest eon son llor decal who was fifteen yean years old at the time bis his death as an indian stooped over to take the plon pioneers pers scalp thomas father of 0 the lie wit hessed the scene lie as ten year years 1 old at the time the entire estate went to lincoln under the law of 0 primogeniture ard consisted mainly of 1 acrin of land in ir ginta and in Kentuck ya a estate for a moling people struggling lIng with poverty father owned land po so it was that thomas lincoln was to earn his lie ile rose from I 1 laborer to carpenter survey surveyor r soldier I 1 farmer and property owner in ellza beth town he wax employed hy by samuel a substantial bu hu iness man of the territory who win was a clasp ffriend friend of john dunlap and who wrote many letter letters to the there he met nancy hanks ana later bollt built the cabin where I 1 cincola thi tho resident president an as bjoraa new cabin and as well constructed as an house of the time and littion wl lonon on it farm tarn ten adles from at deeds in hie the courts there show that the firm which hu has awen ll HI its the all site of 1 in birthplace unit from chith five lie caan in the WAS taken ev insisted 11 of ma re toan am PAN at iris resi res i 4 nsf fer able plit plot ami unit not cot a few F rr r a us as hns has awen told aho lie farm w i purd ail la in INA with F 40 tx la in aut end and other Palyn sista ile I 1 ened in addil biss alwy 01 arris arri S pf Krin twity 11 1 II 11 arnold la in l |