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Show February 15, 1978 Lincoln writes biography for campaign time BY GLEN PERRINS Rockingham Beacon Writer After many months of urging, Abraham Lincoln wrote his own biography for his campaign in 1860. His biography was three pages long and on December 20, 1859, he sent it to Jesse W. Fell, of Bloomington, Illinois with this note: Herewith is a little sketch, as you requested. There is not much of it, for the reason, I suppose, that there is not much of me. If anything is made out of it, I wish it to be modest and not go beyond the material. If it were thought necessary to incorporate anything from any of my speeches, I suppose there would be no objection. Of course, it must not appear to have been written by myself. His life story was printed in February, 1860, in third person and was the basis of Pennsylvania. An effort to identify them with the New England family of the same name ended in nothing more definite than a similarity of Christian names in both families, such as Enoch, Lori, Mordecai, Solomon, Abraham, and the like. My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up follows: I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my loth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon County, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham readin, Lincoln, Q electoral tickets, making active canvasses. was I losing interest in politics when the repeal in the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I and Illinois, Macon County. Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sanganon, now in Menard County, where I remained a year as a sort of a clerk in a store. Then came the Black Hawk War; and I was elected a captain of volunteers, a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went to the campaign, was elected, ran for the Legislature the same year ( 1832) and was beaten the only time I have ever been beaten by the people. The next and three succeeding biennial elections I was elected to the Legislature. I was not a candidate afterward. During this legislative period I had studied law, and removed to Springfield to practice it. In 1846 1 was once elected to the Lower House of Congress. Was not a AMBROTYPE BY dark Yours very truly A. Lincoln two-hou- Lincoln-Dougla- candidate for From 1849 to 1854, both inclusive, practiced law more than ever assiduously before. OPPPPPQPQPOP OOQQPQQPQQQ LEARAMCE Big Savings Now! o CHflOMACOlOftn o o fgilTH o Reg. $129.95 CLEARANCE PRICE G -. 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TtW YEOMAN 4 DAYS Feb. SUPER VALUE DIAGONAL o 23" BLACK & WHITE COMPACT TV with complexion, coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other marks on brands recollected. Friday, October 1, 1858 r s the campaign, after Lincoln had made a During D.H. in his Gilmer friend for a he the asked was picby public square, speech ture. The photographer made two exposures. One plate was given to Gilmer, the other plate supposedly destroyed. (LINCOLN: His Life in Photographs by Stefan Lorant) O G hundred and eighty pounds; CALVIN JACKSON, PITTSFIELD presDdleri)tts, o have done since is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said that I am, in height, six feet four inches, nearly ; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one of necessity. I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was 22. At 21 I came to Cipherin to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. emigrated from Q Writing, Was a Whig in politics; and generally on the Whig pressure liberally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my 8th year. He reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, no so but called, was ever qualification required of a teacher beyond the many campaign biographies. It reads as undistinguished Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all. I have not been to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of education. I have picked up from time to time under the County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, O G G G G Q |