| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 510 pages
...wandering boy, seeking work. He hired himself out, and thus spent the whole of his youth as a laborer in the fields of others. When twenty-eight years of...child was Abraham Lincoln, the subject of this sketch. Thomas, his father, was a generous, warm-hearted, good-natured man, with but little efficiency. He... | |
| Sanilac County (Mich.) - 1884 - 558 pages
...could obtain were few; but these he read and re-read until they were almost committed to memory. f When twenty-eight years of age he built a logcabin...this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble woman, gfentle, loving, pensive, created to adorn a palace, doomed to toil and pine, and die in a hovel. "All... | |
| Governors - 1885 - 1246 pages
...wandering boy, seeking work. He hired himself out, and thus spent the whole of his youth as a laborer in the fields of others. When twenty-eight years of...Kentucky emigrants, who had also come from Virginia Thensecond child was Abraham Lincoln, the subject of this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble... | |
| Governors - 1887 - 650 pages
...the whole of his youth as a laborer in the fields of others. When twenty-eight years of age he buill a logcabin of his own, and married Nancy Hanks, the daughter of another family of poor Kentucky emi|: grants, who had also come from Virginia. Their jt- second child was Abraham Lincoln, the subject... | |
| Green Lake County (Wis.) - 1890 - 902 pages
...his youth as a lalwrer in the fields of others. When twenty-eight years of age he buili a lograbin of his own, and married Nancy Hanks, the daughter...of this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble v.-oman, gentle, loving, pensive, created to adorn a palace, doomed to toil and pine, and die in a... | |
| Governors - 1891 - 650 pages
...wandering boy, seeking work. He hired himself out, and thus spent the whole of his youth as a ?.ilx>rer in the fields of others. When twenty-eight years of...of this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble •voman, gentle, loving, pensive, created to adorn a palace, doomed to toil and pine, and die in a... | |
| Governors - 1891 - 878 pages
...wandering boy. seeking work. He hired himsclfout, and thus spent the whole of his youth as a ?ilx>rer in the fields of others. When twenty-eight years of...of this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble •vornan, gentle, loving, pensive, created to adorn a palace, doomed to toil and pine, and die in... | |
| Calhoun County (Mich.) - 1891 - 1057 pages
...wandering boy, seeking work. He hired himself out, and thus spent the whole of his youth as a 1 borer in the fields of others. When twenty-eight years of...Kentucky emigrants, who had also come from Virginia. * Thensecond child was Abraham Lincoln, the subject of this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble... | |
| Governors - 1891 - 892 pages
...his youth as a Piborer in the fields of others. When twenty eight years of age he built a lograbin of his own, and married Nancy Hanks, the daughter...Kentucky emigrants, who had also come from Virginia. _ Their second child was Abraham Lincoln, the subject of this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble... | |
| 1892 - 538 pages
...the whole of his youth as a iborer in the fields of others. When twenty-eight years of age he buili a logcabin of his own, and married Nancy Hanks, the...of this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble •ťoman, gentle, loving, pensive, created to adorn a palace, doomed to toil and pine, and die in... | |
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