Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-02
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
REnTNIsCENCES EFoKED By 4 VISIT
70 MS GRIFE.
The Extraordinary Career of Poor Ken
tuclsy Boy-fT;s Ascent from the Lowest
Station 20 the Presidency.

monument and old frame dwelling. By
them [ pause to SEQ if 1 can realize the
greatest instance of the poor white type
in this country.
Lincoln was born Feb. u, 1909, the son
of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks.
The first volume of the book entitled
Lannon's Life of Lincon," which is gen
orally attributed to Jeremiah Black and
Chauncey Black, his son, contains this
Ging at one of the greatest. and purest men
this country ever produced in its opening
sentence:
His fathers name was Thomas Lincoln,
and his mothers maiden name was Nancy
Hanks. At the time of his birth, they are
supposed to have been married about three
years. Although there appears to have
been but little sympathy or affection be-
tween Thomas and Abraham Lincoln, they
were. nevertheless, connected by ties and
associations which make the previous his
tory of Thomas Lincoln and his family a
necessary part of any reasonably full BIZ
ography of the great man who immortal
lied the name by wearing it."
Several years after this was published
2nd i was followed by brutal attempt to
make it appear that Iinooln's father and
mother were never married at ala law
yer II one of the Kentucky counties dis
covered the register of marriage of Thorn
as and Nancy Lincoln, and sent it to ex-
Secretary Bristow in New York. took
occasion to show that the Blacks, if they
put forth this biographical libel, were a
pair of ghouls. A writer, supposed to be
Chauncey Black, replied in column Of
billingsgate. He has since been elected
lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania; but,
if he concocted this Islander on dead man
and his mother and father, he viii noe -
much higher.
WAS LINCOLN A DUTCRMAN?
The best evidence goes to show that the
Lincoln family originated in Pennsy lyania,
and moving down the valley stopped
in Virginia, and thence got to Kentucky.
1 would not be surprised if Lincoln had a
little of the old Dutch blood in him in
some generation. His honesty, which gave
him the name of Honest Abe; his occasional
coarseness of illustration, his unfailing
good humor and his anxiety to acquit him
SELF well everywhere, remind me of those
old Germans who had virtues and courage
beyond appearances.
WHERE BORN.
Lincoln was born in Hardin county,
Kentucky, but the part of the county where
he was born is said to be included in an
other county called La Rue. 1t was a roll
ing country, about one-third barren, and
on the barreDs grew black jacks and post
oaks, and in places it rose into high
mounds almost like mountains-one called
the Shiny mountain, and the other the Blue
Ball. lie was born in log cabin, mile
and q half from subsequent town called
Hodgenville, on Nolin creek. When he
was very little fellow he was removed to
another cabin, on Knob creek, six miles
from Hodgenville. Here he staid, it is
said, till he was seven years old. He was
born forty years after Daniel Boone first
struck out from South Carolina to explore
Kentucky, and only thirty-four years after
Boone accomplished permanent settle
ment in Kentucky.
1t is said that Lincoln's grandfather,
whose name was also Abraham, came
from Rockingham county, Virginia, to
Kentucky in 1880 with young and tender
family, an settled in Bullitt county, on
Floyd's creek, where he YVES shot to death
by and Indian while working in his fel3
the year after the British troops embarked
from America. Five little children left =
his wife were moved by her to Washn- ,Io..
county-named Mordecai, JOSIAH, Thorn g.
Mary and Nancy. Like many of the joor
whites of Kentucky, these children when
they grew up removed to Indiana and
Illinois-the women, however, remaining
in kentucky and marrying in families
named Crume and Brumfeld. 1t is said
that the children were generally born in
Virginia.
DR.. Holland says that the Lincolns of
Rockingham county, Virginia, came from
Berks county, Pennsylvania, and were
Quakers. The characteristics of Lincoln
bear out this theory.
THE PRESIDENTS FATHER,
Thomas Lincoln, never had any education,
could hardly read, worked for days wages,
and hunted game. When he married
Nancy Hanks, he had for first child a
daughter named Sarah, who left no chill
dren; the son Abraham, and son who
died baby, named Thomas. Lincoln's
AdIuSI Was d VOL duIlaDlS p6ISOA3 looS
than six feet high; of good nature, i'm
provident and rowing tendencies; but he
was much loved. He always considered
that he had made failure in life by not
having an education. Lincoln's mother is
said to have been slender, pale, sad, and
sensitive woman, superior in nature to the
rough customers around her; and Lincoln
always called her his angel mother.
They we're very miserable, and
poor, yet both parents were religious. The
mother could just read, and she read to
her children. Lincoln's first teacher was
Catholic named Zachariah Riney, and the
next q bright youth named Caleb Hazel.
Schools were barely known,aHd the preach
ing was by rovers. Lincoln never saw q
church for years, and his parents had the
Baptist tendency. The first lessons in ora
tory Lincoln ever listened 10 were by wan
dering Baptist preachers. There Is . iheo-
ry that Lincoln's father moved away fraas
Kentucky because he saw no opportunity
to educate his children in society where
slavery was of more consequence than
schools He did not want his children to
be as common as negroes. Another reason
alleged for the fathers removal was the bad
liabilities in Kentucky, which had routed
Daniel Boone himself from his property.