The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-02-12

do honor to the memory of Abraham
Lincoln at the latter's birthplace.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Roose-
welt and Secretary of War Wright.
HODGENVILLE, Ky, Feb. H.
The centenary of Abraham Lincoln S
birth Will be observed generally
throughout the United States but
nowhere will the commemoration eX-
ercises command more interest than
those TO be held in this little town ON
February -. Two miles from here
ON the Lincoln Farm, which has been
purchased by a national association,
formed for the purpose. President
Roosevelt will lay the corner stone
of a memorial building now being
erected by popular subscription to
mark Lincoln's birthplace and to
protect for all times the little log
cabin in which the martyr president
was horn
The centenary address on this oc-
casion will be delivered by President
Roosevelt. General Luke +. Wright.
the secretary of war will speak on
behalf of the Confederate soldiers.
General Grant Wilson will represent
the veterans of the Union army and
Lincoln's native state will be
represented by Governor Augustus T..
Wilson of Kentucky. Other addresses
will be made by Bishop Galloway of
Mississippi and Ex-Governor Joseph
w. Folk of Missouri.
Hodgenvile. which is near the
geographical center of the state of
Kentucky and not far from the CEN
ter of the United States, promises to
become a new Mecca in America and
the Lincoln Farm a second Mount
Vernon Although Abraham Lincoln
had other homes there is sentiment
about his birthplace that does not
attach to any of them. He lived here
for eight years and before he left.
knew very much of what Mark Twain
b calls the model little farm that
raised man. He went swimming
in the nearby creek and by the light
from the huge fireplace in the little
one room cabin he learned his first
lessons.
Ii was in 1906 that Thomas Lin
coin brought his bride. Nancy Hanks.
and established the rude little home
that three years later was TO welcome
into the world the future president.
Theirs was the rough life of
pioneers the farm was then as now a
sterile piece of land and to make both
ends meet the elder Lincoln did odd
jobs of carpentry in the vicinity. be-
sides working the farm. The actual
necessities of life were seldom lack
f..r I.nf IL ..f
poverty For some years Thomas
Lincoln served as a county supervisor
of public roads an important position
in that time. Land owners paid their
poll tax with pick and shovel then,
and on road mending days he used to
take little Abe along both for COM
pany and for help. There are old
timers here now who claim that there
Is not section of the old pike WITHIN
several miles of his home along which
Abraham Lincoln had not played or
ON which he had not driven his OK
team.
At this time kentucky offered few
allurements To a poor man and in
1914 the Lincons sold The little farm
and mover To Indiana. Subsequently
Abraham Lincoln moved into Illinois
and the rest is history. But through
all the years that followed he never
forgot his first home. He rarely re-
ferred to it. but after he had become
president of the United States he is
known to have said: When the wal
is over | would like very much &c
visit my old Kentucky home.
remember il we'll"
But he never did return and the
farm and the little log cabin had 6
varied history. Thomas Lincoln sold
the place to family named Crea
and II remained In their hands fol
over seventy years. Its beautiful
rock spring was apparently Its ont
redeeming feature and only recent.
has anyone awakened To the realiza
ton that those one hundred and tel
acres had any value beyond thei
yield in corn and sorghum. Tim
and time newspapers have announces
that the Lincoln birthplace farm wa
TO be sold. As "a matter of fact IL ha
only changed hands twice sine
Thomas Lincoln's original transfer
A few years ago IL was given into tn
management of Rev. j W. Bing
ham who removed the log cabin [
the exhibition at Nashville. and late
sold IL to the exhibitors who took
about the country as trayellin
show. But year or two ago tn
logs were found in cellar at Colleg
Point. Long Island, where 1t wa
stored and with ceremony was res
tored to Its original site
The farm itself has been the sui
iect of litigation for several year
and efforts have been made b
various interests 10 use II for on
purpose or another. Many scheme
have been suggested from time I
time but none of them have born
any large national significance
Finally i'm 1905 IL was advertised tina
ION August 2S the Lincoln Farm wa
to be sold between the hours of te