| Show Birthplace of f Lincoln by No Means Squalid And now there Ims he be been n brought to light practical evidence that the birthplace birth hirth pl price place ce of Abraham Lincoln was not the pitiful hut but of poverty that has hns been described lugubriously by tiste nor was the great emancipator of humble hum ble be and poor parentage A letter hook of Capt John Juhn Dunlap historic printer of Philadelphia and wealthy landowner landown er coupled with a research ma made p recently re reo by hy a n newspaperman of Kentucky Ken Kentucky n tucky brings out plainly these Since the recent discovery of the Important work ten rendered ere during the theP P Revolution ne by Captain Dunlap Dunlop and Lieutenant Claypoole printers rs of 01 the first dally daily n newspaper In III America and of the Continental con can br grass ss foht Barr Connecticut historian and a member of th the tho Society Sen III IV of ot Pennsylvania has followed the documents doe doc of Dunlap and revealed re hI his study many many Interesting Interesting facts of historical value The latest latent source of that has hus come to not noll notice nolle lee e I Is I the lie he letter r book of ot Dunlap loaned the Historical ul society so Sll clety by the noted printers printer's I. I great great- t. t I grandson George Chapman hapman mI ht of It Va formerly a n Philadelphia Philadel phia attorney The letters are the NIP cor- cor correspondence rC IO ence of Dunlap and ond four tour oilier 1 wealthy men taco who traveled to ro the H very r spot spat In In Kentucky l where whre Lincoln s family came from Virginia In order orde to Invest In land there thre Dispels Poverty Legend By comparing the reports of If these men to their Philadelphia s and the documentary lu evidence present ent presented ed ld In a honk book compiled by hy Louis A Warren a 0 newspaperman of vide y I x Ky-x Mr Jr Barr has tins conclusions n u h chi he Ill points out as os t nd he popular belief In the hp po pov poJ nd r i J 4 aham Lincoln needed neede 1 no such J e to enhance his greatness Ills rise J troll obscurity was mighty enough h gram Crom the l frontier frontier- It il Is nut not necessary t to futile fable hl hlf gig beginning from a n low Inv level pi The orre correspondence e Dunlap OITes fI testifies to the richness ss of ot the land the beautiful resources of the rile country and the Ilse splendid n l type of me teen n who pop Polk populate the section lOll John Jahn Dunlap his brother James George fI hIlY Wll IVil lIam Ham Orr the flip engineer Michael 1 then treasurer of nf the rile Suites S were WJ partners In pin pUl chasing 1 i lI acre s ns e of f the tIe I Kentucky ley land sun on lIn vl nii th town Inn 11 ten edict p from the LIm-e LIm ln birth hirth e. to In earn lIT em un his fat fathers father's u At r HIP Ilse value seam that hat rhe there nico wlm WillI attoe r It lap inn Phil Phil- lIla 11 tit Irh lI the rill f thin lilo rivo riv- riv et o I 1 c n I U ly Umi y mi I K 1 KJ O t Abraham Lincoln grandfather of ot his namesake who became President resident of the United States left his comfortable home In Virginia for the same purpose purpose to to invest in the newl newly opened land lanel landof landof of promise Abraham Lincoln hind had ex extensive ex- ex c- c hol holdings In Virginia and purchased purchased pur pur- chased large tracts In the new coun coun- Nf tK r rs rt rv I s' s v r t there I is I. a drawing dro of I the lie rent central nil fen lure of th the I O lO memorial which till erect creel to the th or ory of A Abraham l rail a nt Lincoln and hta hi r er er panted The Ih Hr Ire J. J l the oln farm nir the lie Olin river iy Iu i 11 I tit mid died l I Ir l glare Lincoln 14 years Cr of or the of try lie Ue was not poor The tear year was 1783 Indians Killed Grandfather Again the Philadelphians wera linked with Abraham Lincoln In tray edy The country was beautiful and andrich andrich rich but dangerous from hostile In In- Lincoln lost his life by hy the tomahawk tom torn In the tilE same year that George was killed In n a similar perhaps perhaps per per- haps Imps the thc sime Indian massacre Jumes fumes Dunlap tel tells is the story of l Keightly's death In a letter to his brother who had returned to Phila Philadelphia delphia temporarily with plans to remove remove re re- re- re move mo his family fatally to the new country The letter warning him to remain North reads Dear Brother I 1 am nm now no on my ray way to the Falls I am sorry I ha have han some orne very unhappy news R to tell you you you- that thaI is the death deuth of Mr K who was killed by the tile Indians Indium on cm the 1 th of August 1784 within hive five miles of till this place we rind and 15 from the V. 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W Daniels the lawyer lawer was killed nt at th the same Instant Mr Air Johnston the clerk ot at the lower county was wounded inthe In Inthe the rial same saute company Mr l' l was shot f tomahawked hawked III and II I scalped scalped iray I pd Pra Pray drive e away all nil notions of reI returning to this country All that is to toe e e got gut In It Is not to t the he danger er that attends at nt tends living In It it- it When Abraham Lincoln met hl his death at ot the hands bungs of the Indians II hl his oldest son sou Mordecal who v vs liS its s years old nt at the time tune o nrc avenged his death d its Jis nu on Indian stooped over pr to tn take tJ the pioneers pioneer's scalp Thomas Lin Un coin fa father I hr of or tile the resident President witnessed witnessed witnessed wit wit- the scene lne lie Ite was liS ten en years year old lid at the time line The entire estate went nl to Mordecal Lincoln under tinder the law luw of or primogeniture und and consisted on mainly of l 4 acres of land In Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- IrginIa ginia und and In Kentucky n n 1 a considerable estate state for a n drifting moving people struggling poverty Father Owned Land So It was that Thomas lin was to earn urn his livelihood Lie lle rose from laborer to carpenter surveyor sUr soldier farmer and property owner In Elizabethtown Eliza Eliza- he was employed hy ty Samuel Samu l Haycraft u a substantial business man manof manof of the territory who w was a close clos friend of John Dunlap and who many letters to the There he met Nancy Nuncy Hanks flanks arid aria na later Inter built the cabin where Lincoln tin till li President was born a horn a new cabin and ond andas andas ondas as well constructed as os an un n average house of the time and ond section section section-on on n 11 farm ten ten miles from at Deeds In the courts there show that flint the tile farm which ho has been Identified as as' as the site of Lincoln's birthplace and und from which tile the cabin enshrined In th the tho Lincoln memorial was taken con consisted of ot more than acres u acres u s-u u considerable consider able obIt plot and ond not a n few feu acres noes as ns lias hus been told die Tl-e farm furm was purchased 11 In 1808 with In cash rush and ond other subsequent payments Lie tie owned In addition records show 30 acres of ot Kentucky I hinds Leonard Leonard II U. Arnold Arnolt ArnoldIn In la the Philadelphia Ut ord fc k I |
