White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-21

Abraham Lincoln is native Of Har,
din County, Kentucky. He was bonn on
the 18th day of February. 1903. His
parents were both from Virginia, and
were certainly not Of the first families
His paternal grandfather. Abraham Lin
coin, emigratel from Rockingham county.
Virginia, to Kentucky, about 1871 or 2.
where year or two later he was killed
by Indians, not in battle, but by stealth,
while he was lsboring to open farm in
the forest. His ancestors. who were re-
sps1table members of the Society Of
Friends, went to Virginia from Berk>
co mtg, Pennsylvania. Descendants OF
the same stock still reside In the eastern
part Of the State. B.
Mr. Lincoln's father, at the death of his
iIthsr, was but six years of age. and he
grew up literally without education. He
removed from Kentucky to what is now
opener county, Indiana, in 1916. The
family reached their home about the time
the State was admitted into the Union
The region in which they settled was rude
and wild, and they endured. for some
years, the hard experience of frontier
ihe' IN which the struggle with nature for
existence and security is to be maintained
only by constant vigilance. Bears, wolves
ant other wild animals still infested the
woods. and young Lincoln acquired moro
skill IN the use of rife than knowledge
Oh books. There were institutions here
and there known by the Aattering demon.
nation Of Schools" but no qualiica.
uon was required to teach beyond ''read.
H. "wrItln" and "cypherin, as the YER
nacular phrase ran. as far as the rule of
tnrse. 1t a straggler, supposed to under
stand Latln' happened to sojourn in the
nelgh6Orhood. he was looked upon as a
WIZARD and regarded with an awe suited
70 SO mysterious character. .--, Sal.
Hard work aud plenty of it was the or.
ger OF the day, varied, indeed, BY an oc.
caslonsl bear hunt, not unfreo1ent deer
eGase, or other wild sport. OF course
Wnen young Lincoln came Of age he was
NOT scholar. He could read and write,
ana mad some knowledge of arithmetic,
Sut that was about all and as vet, he
nsa but little ambition to know more of
~ast was to be found in books. His at.
'Aaments otherwise were not to be des-
pl'sd' He had grown to be six feet four
ine1es 10 stature. was active and athletic,
could WELD an axe. direct the pillow, or
uSe the ride, as well a. the best of his
eOmpeerS' and was fully up to all the
mysteries of prairie farming, and fully in
urea TO hardship and toll. Since he ar
V NV at age be has not been to school
whatever his requirements are, they have
oSea picked up from time to time as op-
ponnnIty occurred, or as the pressure of
some emergency demanded.
at twsnty-on be removed to Illinois,
s0o passed the first year in Macon coun.
-: - u active labor on q farm, where he
SnI fellow laborer (named Hanks
;eLlf THREE THOUSAND RAILS
- - .le year 1880. 1t will be interesting
Tue millions before whom he is placed
~ : candidate for the highest Office in the
s s"s Of a Tree people, to know that he once
N. Ranged F0t-6Oot on the Ohio River
-. o anecdotes which he sometimes re-
,aeS % hIs friends of his maritime sxpe-
81 suce before the Introduction ofstssm on
western rivers. are indsscribably
uAUA From Macon county be went