| Publisher |
Forgotten Books |
| Publication Year |
2018 |
| ISBN-13 |
9781334087639 |
| ISBN-10 |
9781334087639 |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Number of Pages |
20 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Weight (grms) |
50 |
Excerpt from Lincoln's Autobiography: Reproduced From the Original Manuscript in Facsimile
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year. We 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 grew up. There were some schools, so called; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond readifl, writifl and rip/757771 to the Rule of Three. If a straggler, supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition' for education. 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. Ihave 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 pressure of necessity.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the United States was born in February 1809, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He played in key role in passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which ended slavery in America. Prior to his election as President in 1860, he had successful careers as a lawyer and politician in Illinois, serving several terms in the state legislature and one in the US House of Representatives. He also holds the distinction of being the only US President to receive a patent; in 1849, he designed a system for lifting riverboats off sandbars. Lincoln won the 1860 election and was inaugurated as President in March of 1861. He set up a national banking system while he was President. President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at the Ford Theatre in Washington D.C. He died the next day on April 15, 1865. On the day he was shot, Lincoln told his bodyguard that he had dreamt he would be assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln
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