Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1865-06-03
WEEKLY TRINITY JOURNAL.
LIFE OF LINCOLN BY HIMsELF.-Charles Lanman
Webster's old private Secretary, sends the fol-
lowing to the New York Herald:

LIFE OF LINCOLN BY HIMsELF.-CharlesL anman,
Webster's old private Secretary, sends the fol-
lowing to the New York Herald
GEoReETowS Cd c., April 81, 1868.
AS everything connected with the history of
our martyr President is of intense interest send
You brief record which illustrates his singular
modesty as man. When, in 1853, commenced
my iabors on the work known as the . Dictionary
OF Congress- | forwarded 10 every ex-member
of Congress whose residence could ascertain a
circular asking each person for information as to
the date and place of his birth, the character OF
his education, his profession or occupation, and
list OF any public positions he may have filled.
Those simple facts were all | wanted, and in
looking over the thousands of replies that have
been sent me since, it is truly remarkable 10 find
that men of the greatest ability have invariably
told a brief and direct story, thereby preserving
their innate modesty and writing nothing to
compromise their dignity The reply | received
from Lincoln was singulary brief and yet COM
prehensive, and you may well imagine Is now
highly valued by me, with other friendly letters
by the same hand as memento of one who pos
sessed all the degrees of sovereign honor" as
elucidated by Lord Bacon, and who. like Reguius
and the two Deci. sacrificed his life for the good
of his country. The record in question reads as
follows:
" Born February 10, 1909, in Hardin county,
Kentucky.
Education defective.
60 Profession, a lawyer
o. Have been a Captain of Volunteers in the
Black Hawk War.
q Postmaster ut very small office.
" Four times n member of the Legislature.
~ And was n member of the lower House of
Congress. Yours, etc, A. LINCOLN"
Such is the story OF his life down to 1858
What a wonderful contrast does it present to his
subsequent career
VALENTINE MORT, the first Surgeon of America,
died in New York City, April 10Th, aged eighty
years. His brilliant reputation, says high au-
thority: - is mainly due to his original opera
tons as a surgeon As early rs 1878, DR.. Mott
placed a igature around the bracheocephalic
trunk, or arteria innominats., only two inches
fom the heart, for aneurism of the right sub
elavian artery, for the first time in the history of
surgery. The patient survived the operation
twenty-eight days. indicating the feasibility of
SO dangerous an undertaking. He extracted the
entire right clavicle for malignant disease of that
bone, where it was necessary 10 apply forty lica-
lures an operation which DR.. Mott himself as
serts to be the most dangerous and difficult that
can be performed upon the human body. The
patient is still living, and enjoys perfect health
DR.. Mott was the first to tie the primitive lilac
artery for aneursm. He has tied the common
carotid torty-siX times, cut for stone one hundred
and siXty-five times and amputated nearly one
thousand limbs He early introduced his orig
inal operation for mmobity of the lower jaw.
and succeeded after many eminent surgeons had
failed. In 1921 he PERFORMED the first operation
for osteo-sarcoma of the lower jaw. He was the
first surgeon who removed the lower jaw for ne
crosis. "-.NdryScMe Appeal.