The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-02-13


coin was born, February IL. 1909.
The boy grew, and became strong,
and his parents named him Abraham,
after his grandfather, who was killed
by the Indians. AS soon as the bow
could understand, his mother began
to teach him the Bible.
In the autumn after he was eight
years old, his parents left their Ken
lucky home and moved to Indiana.
Ihey lived in shed until spring,
when their new house was completed.
Soon the mothers strength failed and
on the fifth of October she fell asleep
never to wake again.
Abraham went to school in a small
schoolhouse where he learned to read,
write and cipher. Among the books
ne read were the Bible, Pilgrims Pro-
gress, Robert Burns Poems and the
Life of Washington.
In the year 1880 the family moved
to Illinois. Abraham then went to
New Orleans on fatboat and saw
slavery at it's worst. On his return
he clerked in country store, AFTER
wards served as captain in the Black
Hawk war and was made postmaster
at New Salem.
Lincoln moved to Springfield,
Illinois, and practiced law. There he
was married to Miss Mary Todd. He
built small frame house, which was
their home until they moved to the
White House.
In 1861 Lincoln became president.
The southern states at once seeded,
and to him fell the great task of pre-
serving the Union. In 1865 he issued
proclamation by which all slaves
were declared free.
He was elected to his second term,
but served only few weeks when he
was shot at a theater in Washington
by John Wilkes Booth on April IA,
1865. Kind friends carried him to a
private house not far away, and the
next morning he fell asleep.
In his memory a beautiful monu-
ment was erected at Springfield,
Illinois, where he rests today, the
greatest and best loved president of
our country.
CLASS CHRIST.
BY ANDREW MATTsON.
Lincoln, the sixteenth president of
the United States, was born in Ken
lucky, February r., 1909. He was
taken to Indiana when he was a little
boy and when that country was wild
and rough. Later he removed with
his father to Illinois.
Abraham studied hard to get his
education, the schools were few and
the teachers ignorant, but Lincoln
trained himself to think. He worked
on farm, went to New Orleans on a
f1atboat, and acted as clerk in a
country store, learned and practiced
surveying, and then studied law.
Lincoln was elected president in the
year 1860. From the beginning to the
end of the war President Lincoln had
kept only one object in view. He
wished to restore the Union and make
it perpetual. He had directed the
war, as he himself expressed it, with
malice toward none, and charity for
ALL"
Now that the war was over and the
Union saved, it was his earnest and
eager purpose to restore the old
friendship between the sections as
quickly and as completely as pos
sible. His first was to issue an am
nesty proclamation which included
nearly everybody in the south.
On the night of April IA, 1865, as
theater, Washington, an erratic actor
who had never been southern
soldier or southern citizen, shot and
mortally wounded the best friend that
the south had among the public men
of the north. Lincoln died the next
day.
OAAOO S-OECOND.
BY EDITH FARLEY.
Abraham Lincoln was born Feb
ruary II, 1909, in log cabin in Ken
lucky. He was the son of very poor
parents.
Abraham Lincoln had a very poor
chance to go to school but his mother
was wise and good woman and
urged him to make the best of his sit
uation and he would win in the end,
and he certainly did, for he was our
sixteenth president. Although very
plain looking man he was we'll fitted
for that Office. He was honest and
Industrious. He was often called
"Good old Honest Abe," which was
good nickname for him. He was
also kind-hearted, generous man.