Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln

he Americans said that when an American gets to heaven

." It is not so common now as it was a few years ago because the great public l

from England to Massachusetts; then they moved west again to Pennsyl

s, planted seed and God sent the rain-drops and sun-beams and the grain sprang up and became g

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toward them on his soft moccasins. He paused, aimed his gun and fired. The man fell over dead; then the Indian came rapidly, caught up the boy and ran off toward the woods with him. But his older brother, Mordecai, ran to the log hut an

ut these pioneers had many hardships we do not have. They were constantly fighting the Indians and did not have the pleasant homes we have, but lived in rough log cabins, without plaster on the wall

r all, for some of the most honored men of our history, such as Andrew Jackson, Daniel Boone,

nd many and many a time he shot deer and bears. The people did not have much beef then but the meat was mostly wild turkeys, geese, prairie chickens, quail, venison and bears' meat. Every boy learned to shoot well a

ed; he was twenty-eight years old and she was twenty-three. A

ause they preached at so many places and all the

e at one of the points once in several months. He rode on horseback

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o years older and one young brother who died while a little baby. Thomas Lincoln was a slow-moving man and fond of jokes. He could not read until after he was married. This

ed well educated and had a cultivated and strong mind. Her son is supposed to have inherited

son Abraham became a hard student and thus laid the foundation for his greatness. She w

not think it manly to take God's name in vain. One time when he was clerking, a rowdy swore in the store and in the presence of ladies. When they were gone Lincoln asked the man to step o

to be quite a good-sized boy in that state he did not think, as many boys foolishly d

ome a great man he said, "All I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother." These incidents seem all the more wonderful because there we