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# Abraham Lincoln: A Story and a Play/A New Home

A New Home
When Abraham was twenty-one years old, his father decided to move once more. He learned that farther west in Illinois, there was rich prairie land where it would be easy to make a comfortable home. Two other families decided to go with the Lincolns. Heavy ox-carts were loaded with furniture and supplies, and the party started out with hearts full of hope.
Abraham carried with him thirty dollars' worth of "notions," which he sold for such good prices to the settlers along the way, that by the end of the journey he had gained thirty dollars by his sales.
As they travelled along, a small thing happened which showed Abraham's tender heart even for dumb creatures. The party had to cross an icy stream, and when they reached the other side they found that a dog had been left behind. It stood on the shore crying pitifully. Should it be allowed to stay there and starve?
"Indeed not," declared Abraham. He hurriedly drew off his shoes, waded across the stream, and was soon on his way back with the dog under his arm. The poor little creature was now so happy that Lincoln said afterwards he ​was more than paid for his trouble.
After Abraham helped the family get settled in the new home, he went on to the village of New Salem, where he became the clerk of a man named Offut. He was so kind and merry and told such good stories, that people liked to come to the store for the sake of talking with him, just as the folks of Gentryville had done. Besides this, they found he was so honest, that they could trust him in the smallest matters.
Now it happened, that one night after Abraham had closed the store, he counted up the money he had received, and found he had six cents too much. He was troubled, and thought about it for a long time. At last he remembered how it must have come about. He had given the wrong change to a certain woman.
He hastened to lock up the store, and started at once for the woman's house three miles away. As soon as he arrived there, he handed her the six cents, telling her he had made a mistake. Then, happy once more, he went home, caring little for the long walk, since he had done what was right. It is not strange that such things as this soon won for him the name of "Honest Abe."
​While Abraham was working for Mr. Offut, he was sent on another flat-boat expedition down the Mississippi. He carried bacon, flour and other things raised on the farms near by, and traded them off to the plantations along the river, just as he had done before. This time, however, he travelled as far as New Orleans, where he saw something that seemed very terrible. It was an auction of slaves. Little children were taken from their mothers' arms and sold as so many pieces of furniture. Women were parted from their husbands. The young man was deeply troubled at the sad sight. He said to himself, "In this great and beautiful country of America, it is dreadful that there should be such a thing as slavery."
# Abraham Lincoln: A Story and a Play/After the War

After the War
When the Black Hawk War came to an end, Lincoln went back to New Salem, reaching his ​home just ten days before the time to elect men for the state legislature.
He was, as we know, a great favorite in the town. "Why not let the people use my name for representative?" he thought. "I shall lose nothing if I fail to be elected."
His many frends were pleased, and when the election day came, all the men in New Salem except three voted for "Abe." The rest of the district, however, favored another man more strongly, and Lincoln lost the election. What should he do now? He had no money and no work. Mr. Offut, who had been a true friend, had failed and given up his business.
"Shall I become a blacksmith or a lawyer?" thought Lincoln. His long, strong arms were well fitted for a blacksmith's trade. But then there was the bright, quick mind which must be kept busy.
"I will be a lawyer," Lincoln finally decided.
Yet he did not know enough to practice law. He must study a great deal before he could carry out his wish, but after much thinking he planned how to bring it about.
"I will keep a store," he said to himself. "There I will have enough spare time to study ​law. When I have learned enough, I can be a lawyer."
He got another man named Berry for a partner, and they started out with great hopes. Lincoln had the time he wished for study, and every spare moment was spent poring over some law books he had found in the bottom of a barrel of rubbish, which another man who needed the money had sold him for a half-dollar.
He kept these books close at hand, so that the instant a customer left the store, he could go back to his studies, if only for five or ten minutes. To most people these books would seem very tiresome, but to Lincoln they were wonderfully interesting.
In the meantime the town of New Salem was growing smaller every day, and there were fewer and fewer people to trade at the store. Besides, Mr. Berry showed himself of little worth. In a short time the business failed, and Lincoln found himself with a large debt which it took years to pay. He afterwards laughingly called it his "National Debt."
When the store was given up, Lincoln did any kind of work he could get. Yet he still kept up his study of the law, carrying a book with him ​wherever he went, reading as he walked along the street, or whenever he could rest a moment from rail-splitting or farming.
At this time he took great pleasure in reading the plays of William Shakespeare, as well as his law books. One day he received some good news. He had been made a surveyor of lands. It was the very work that George Washington had done so well when a young man. Lincoln was delighted. He was to be paid three dollars a day, and this seemed a large sum.
But he knew little about surveying. What did that matter? He would set to work and learn the business at once. So he went to the schoolmaster, who gave him all the help he needed during the next few weeks to make him a good surveyor. A short time after this he was made postmaster, but the town was so small and there were so few letters, that Lincoln often carried them about in his hat.
# Abraham Lincoln: A History

Volume II
# Abraham Lincoln: A Story and a Play

A brief biography of Abraham Lincoln's life, along with a children's play.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A STORY AND A PLAY
BY
MARY HAZELTON WADE
Author of the Little Cousin books, etc.
RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
BOSTON
Copyright, 1914, by Richard G. Badger
All Rights Reserved
The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.
* Early Life
* Scene One
* School Days
* Scene Two
* Out In The World
* Scene Three
* A New Home
* Scene Four
* Captain Abraham Lincoln
* Scene Five
* After the War
* Scene Six
* Lincoln The Lawyer
* Lincoln The President
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Waterland, Daniel

​Waterland, Daniel (1683-1740).—Theologian, b. at Waseley Rectory, Lincolnshire, and ed. at Camb., took orders, and obtained various preferments, becoming Master of Magdalene Coll., Camb. 1713, Chancellor of York 1722, and Archdeacon of Middlesex 1730. He was an acute and able controversialist on behalf of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity, on which he wrote several treatises. He was also the author of a History of the Athanasian Creed (1723).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Watson, Robert

​Watson, Robert (1730-1781).—Historian, s. of an apothecary in St. Andrews, where and at Edin. and Glasgow, he was ed. He became Prof. of Logic, and afterwards Principal of St. Salvador's Coll., at St. Andrews, and wrote a History of Philip II. of Spain, and part of a continuation on Philip III., which were long standard works.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Waugh, Edwin

​Waugh, Edwin (1817-1890).—Poet, s. of a shoemaker, was b. at Rochdale and, after a little schooling, apprenticed to a printer. He read eagerly, and became assistant sec. to the Lancashire Public School Association. He first attracted attention by his sketches of Lancashire life and character in the Manchester Examiner. He wrote also in prose Factory Folk, Besom Ben Stories, and The Chimney Corner. His best work was, perhaps, his dialect songs, coll. as Poems and Songs (1859), which brought him great local fame. He was possessed of considerable literary gift, and has been called "the Lancashire Burns."
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Webster, Daniel

​Webster, Daniel (1782-1852).—Orator, s. of a farmer in New Hampshire, was a distinguished advocate in Boston, and afterwards a member of the United States Senate and Sec. of State 1841-43 and 1850-52. He was the greatest orator whom America has produced, and has a place in literature by virtue of his pub. speeches.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Waterton, Charles

​Waterton, Charles (1782-1865).—Naturalist, belonged to an old Roman Catholic family in Yorkshire, and was ed. at Stonyhurst Coll. Sent out in 1804 to look after some family estates in Demerara, he wandered through the wildest parts of Guiana and Brazil, in search of plants and animals for his collections. His adventures were related in his highly-spiced and entertaining Wanderings in South America, etc. (1825), in which he details certain surprising episodes in connection with the capture of serpents, and specially of a cayman, on the back of which he rode. He also wrote an interesting account of his family.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Watson, John

​Watson, John (1850-1907) "Ian Maclaren".—Novelist and theological writer, b. at Manningtree, where his f. was an Inland Revenue official, ed. at Stirling and Edin., and the New Coll. there. He came, after serving in a country charge, to Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, where he was a popular preacher, and took a prominent part in the social and religious life of the city. He wrote, under the name of "Ian Maclaren," several novels belonging to the "Kailyard" school, including Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush and The ​Days of Auld Lang Syne, which had great popularity both at home and in America. He also wrote religious works, of which The Mind of the Master is the best known.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Watson, Thomas

​Watson, Thomas (1557?-1592).—Poet, b. in London, was at Oxf., and studied law. He was a scholar, and made translations, one of which was a Latin version of the Antigone of Sophocles. In 1582 he pub. Hecatompathia, or The Passionate Centurie of Love, consisting of 100 eighteen-line poems, which he called sonnets. It was followed by Amyntas (1585) and Teares of Fansie (1593)
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Watts, Isaac

​Watts, Isaac (1674-1748).—Poet and theologian, b. at Southampton, where his f. kept a school, and ed. at a Nonconformist academy at Stoke Newington, became minister of an Independent congregation in Mark Lane; but his health proving insufficient for his pastoral duties, he resigned, and gave himself chiefly to literary work, continuing to preach occasionally. For the last 36 years of his life he resided at Theobald's, the house of his friend, Sir Thomas Abney. Among his writings were various educational treatises, including those on Logic and The Improvement of the Mind, and some works on theological subjects. But his fame rests on his sacred poems and his hymns, which number over 500, and with much that is prosaic comprised "There is a Land of Pure Delight," "O God our Help in Ages Past," and "When I survey the Wondrous Cross," which has been called "the most majestic hymn in English speech." His Horæ Lyricæ was pub. in 1706, Hymns (1707), Divine Songs (for children) (1715), Metrical Psalms (1719). Some of his poems, such as his exquisite cradle song, "Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber" have a perfect beauty and tenderness.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Watts, Alaric Alexander

​Watts, Alaric Alexander (1797-1864).—Poet, b. in London, had an active career as a journalist. He founded the United Service Gazette, and ed. various newspapers and an annual, the Literary Souvenir. His poems were coll. as Lyrics of the Heart. His numerous journalistic ventures finally resulted in bankruptcy.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Webbe, William

​Webbe, William (b. 1550).—Critic and translator. Almost nothing is known of him except that he was at Camb. and ​acted as tutor in certain distinguished families, and was a friend of Spenser. He wrote a Discourse of English Poetrie (1586), in which he discusses metre, rhyme (the use of which he reprehends), and reviews English poetry up to his own day. He also translated the first two of the Eclogues of Virgil in singularly unmelodious hexameters.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Ockley, Simon

Ockley, Simon (1678-1720). -- Orientalist, b. at Exeter, and ed. at Camb., became the greatest Orientalist of his day, and was made in 1711 Prof. of Arabic in his Univ. His chief work is the Conquest of Syria, Persia, and Egypt by the Saracens (3 vols., 1708-57), which was largely used by Gibbon. The original documents upon which it is founded are now regarded as of doubtful authority. O. was a clergyman of the Church of Englandpage 289.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah

Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (SHERIDAN) (1808-1877). -- Grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley S. (q.v.), m. in 1827 the Hon. G.C. Norton, a union which turned out most unhappy, and ended in a separation. Her first book, The Sorrows of Rosalie (1829), was well received. The Undying One (1830), a romance founded upon the legend of the Wandering Jew, followed, and other novels were Stuart of Dunleath (1851), Lost and Saved (1863), and Old Sir Douglas (1867). The unhappiness of her married life led her to interest herself in the amelioration of the laws regarding the social condition and the separate property of women and the wrongs of children, and her poems, A Voice from the Factories (1836), and The Child of the Islands (1845), had as an object the furtherance of her views on these subjects. Her efforts were largely successful in bringing about the needed legislation. In 1877 Mrs. N. m. Sir W. Stirling Maxwell (q.v.).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar

O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar (1844-1881). -- Poet, b. in London, entered the library of the British Museum, afterwards being transferred to the natural history department, where he became an authority on fishes and reptiles. He pub. various books of poetry, including Epic of Women (1870), Lays of France (1872), and Music and Moonlight (1874). Jointly with his wife he wrote Toyland, a book for children. He was associated with D.G. Rossetti and the other pre-Raphaelites. There is a certain remoteness in his poetry which will probably always prevent its being widely popular. He has a wonderful mastery of metre, and a "haunting music" all his own.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Occam or Ockham, William

Occam or Ockham, William (1270?-1349?). -- Schoolman, b. at Ockham, Surrey, studied at Oxf. and Paris, and became a Franciscan. As a schoolman he was a Nominalist and received the title of the Invincible Doctor. He attacked the abuses of the Church, and was imprisoned at Avignon, but escaped and spent the latter part of his life at Munich, maintaining to the last his controversies with the Church, and with the Realists. He was a man of solid understanding and sense, and a masterly logician. His writings, which are of course all in Latin, deal with the Aristotelean philosophy, theology, and specially under the latter with the errors of Pope John XXII., who was his bête-noir.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Oliphant, Laurence

Oliphant, Laurence (1829-1888). -- Novelist and miscellaneous writer, s. of Sir Anthony O., Chief Justice of Ceylon. The first 38 years of his life were spent in desultory study, travel, and adventure, varied by occasional diplomatic employment. His travels included, besides Continental countries, the shores of the Black Sea, Circassia, where he was Times correspondent, America, China, and Japan. He was in the Crimean War, Indian Mutiny, Chinese War, the military operations of Garibaldi, and the Polish insurrection, and served as private sec. to Lord Elgin in Washington, Canada, and China, and as Sec. of Legation in Japan. In 1865 he entered Parliament, and gave promise of political eminence, when in 1867 he came under the influence of Thomas L. Harris, an American mystic of questionable character, went with him to America, and joined the Brotherhood of the New Life. In 1870-71 he was correspondent for the Times in the Franco-German War. Ultimately he broke away from the influence of Harris and went to Palestine, where he founded a community of Jewish immigrants at Haifa. After revisiting America he returned to England, but immediately fell ill and d. at Twickenham. O. was a voluminous and page 290versatile author, publishing books of travel, novels, and works on mysticism. The most important are as follows: The Russian Shores of the Black Sea (1853), Minnesota and the Far West (1855), The Transcaucasian Campaign (1856), Patriots and Fillibusters (adventures in Southern States) (1860), Narrative of a Mission to China and Japan (1857-59), The Land of Gilead (1880), Piccadilly (1870), and Altiora Peto (1883) (novels), and Scientific Religion.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Oldham, John

Oldham, John (1653-1683). -- Satirist and translator, s. of a Nonconformist minister, was at Oxf., and was the friend of most of the literary men of his time, by whom his early death from smallpox was bewailed. He made clever adaptations of the classical satirists, wrote an ironical Satire against Virtue, and four severe satires against the Jesuits. He is cynical to the verge of misanthropy, but independent and manly.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Oldys, William

Oldys, William (1696-1761). -- Antiquary, wrote a Life of Sir W. Raleigh prefixed to an ed. of his works (1736), a Dissertation on Pamphlets (1731), and was joint ed. with Dr. Johnson of the Harleian Miscellany. He amassed many interesting facts in literary history, the fruits of diligent, though obscure, industry. The only poem of his that still lives is the beautiful little anacreontic beginning "Busy, curious, thirsty Fly." O. held the office of Norroy-King-at-Arms. He produced in 1737 The British Librarian, a valuable work left unfinished.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Norton, Charles Eliot

Norton, Charles Eliot, LL.D., D.C.L., etc. (1827-1909). -- American biographer and critic. Church Building in the Middle Ages (1876), translation of the New Life (1867), and The Divine Comedy of Dante (1891); has ed. Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson (1883), Carlyle's Letters and Reminiscences (1887), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/O'Keeffe, John

O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833). -- Dramatist, wrote a number of farces and amusing dramatic pieces, many of which had great success. Among these are Tony Lumpkin in Town (1778), Wild Oats, and Love in a Camp. Some of his songs set to music by Arnold and Shield, such as I am a Friar of Orders Grey, and The Thorn, are still popular. He was blind in his later years.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Oldmixon, John

Oldmixon, John (1673-1742). -- Historical and miscellaneous writer, belonged to an old Somersetshire family, wrote some, now forgotten, dramas and poems which, along with an essay on criticism, in which he attacked Addison, Swift, and Pope, earned for him a place in The Dunciad. He was also the author of The British Empire in America (1708), Secret History of Europe (against the Stuarts), and in his Critical History (1724-26) attacked Clarendon's History of the Rebellion. All these works are partisan in their tone. O. was one of the most prolific pamphleteers of his day.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Richardson, Adrian

From volume 3 of the work.
​Richardson, Adrian, s. Rich., of Brixworth, Northants, cler. Trinity Coll., matric. 21 March, 1680-1, aged 16; B.A. from Christ's Coll., Cambridge, 1684-5, M.A. 1688, vicar of Brixworth 1700. See Foster's Index Eccl.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Richardson, Conon (2)

From volume 3 of the work.
​Richardson, Conon, of co. Worcester, pleb. Brasenose Coll., matric. 28 March, 1617, aged 16, B.A. 19 Feb., 1622-3; rector of Ganarew, co. Hereford, 1626. See Foster's Index Eccl.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Richards, Timothy

From volume 3 of the work.
​Richards, Timothy, of Wilts, cler. fil. Brasenose Coll., matric. 7 July, 1620, aged 18, B.A. 5 Feb., 1623-4, M.A. 6 July, 1626; vicar of Rowde 1629, and rector of Bromham, Wilts, 1660. See Foster's Index Eccl.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Richards, William (1)

From volume 3 of the work.
​Richards, William (Richarddis), B.Gram. 7 July, 1519.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Richards, William (2)

From volume 3 of the work.
​Richards, William, B.A. from St. Mary Hall 27 Oct., 1629, M.A. 5 June, 1632, rector of Irmingland, Norfolk, 1634. See Foster's Index Eccl.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Richards, William (4)

From volume 3 of the work.
​Richards, William, s. William, of Colbrooke, Devon, p.p. New Inn Hall, matric. 20 March, 1677-8, aged 17, B.A. 1681, M.A. 1684; perhaps fellow Eton college 1695, rector of St. Allen, Cornwall, 1709. See Foster's Index Eccl.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Richardson, Anthony

From volume 3 of the work.
​Richardson, Anthony, of Cumberland, pleb. Queen's Coll., matric. entry 14 Jan., 1596-7, aged 14; B.A. 30 June, 1602, M.A. 6 June, 1605 (incorporated at Cambridge 1612); proctor 1613, B.D. 30 June, 1614, rector of West Camel 1615, and of Kingsdon, Somerset, 1626. See Foster's Index Eccl.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Richardson, Christopher

From volume 3 of the work.
​Richardson, Christopher, B.A. 20 March, 1541-2, M.A. 1545.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Richards, William (3)

From volume 3 of the work.
​Richards, William, cler. fil. Trinity Coll., matric. 3 May, 1659; B.A. 24 Feb., 1662-3, fellow, M.A. 1666 (s. Ralph, of Helmdon, Northants, cler.), preacher at Marston, Oxon, rector of Helmdon 1675-1705, lecturer of St. Andrew's, Newcastleon-Tyne, 1693-1705, a non-juror; buried 22 Aug., 1705. See Ath. iv. 678; Foster's Index Eccl.; & Baker's Northants, i. 632.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Richardson, Conon (1)

From volume 3 of the work.
​Richardson, Conon, of co. Worcester, gent. Gloucester Hall, matric. entry under date 3 Aug., 1578, aged 15.
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