Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-11-09
LINCOLN MEMORIAL DEDICATION
President Taft and Many Prominent Men
and Women Assemble Tomorrow to Do
Honor to War President.

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The memorial hall to Abraham Lin
coin, built on the old Lincoln farm near
Hodgenville, KY, will be dedicated to-
morrow in the presence of President
Taft, Chief Justice Edward Douglas
White, of the Supreme Court of the
United States; the Governors of several
States, Senators, Congressman and men
prominent in literature and in public
life.
The imposing building of granite en-
shrines the log cabin in which Lincoln
was born 102 years ago. The Lincoln
Farm Association will turn over the
farm and the memorial building, which
has been erected at cost of SIP, 900
and $4,000 for maintenance, to the
Federal Government, and it will be for
mally received by the President.
Chiseled into the granite on one side
of the building is the following inscrip-
ton:
Here, over the log cabin where
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was born
destined to preserve the union and
free the slave, a grateful people
have dedicated this memorial to
unity, peace and brotherhood.
When the memorial farm and build
ing are accepted by President Taft, the
entire military establishment Of Ken
lucky, several regiments of the regular
army of the United States and many
encampments of the Grand Aamy of the
Republic and of the Confederate veter-
ans will salute. More than a score of
special trains will be run from Louis
vile to carry the the thousands who
will be present.
The president of the Lincoln Farm
Association is Joseph W. Folk, of Mis-
souri,; Clarence H. Mackey is treasurer;
Charles E. Miner, assistant treasurer;
Richard M. Jones, secretary, and Robt.
j. Collier. chairman of the executive
committee.
The members of the board of trustees
ere President Taft, Cardinal Gibbons.
General Horace Porter, Joseph Choate,
Oscar S. Strauss, Governor Augustus
Z. Wilson, of Kentucky, Supreme Court
Justice Charles E. Hughes, Lyman j.
Gage, Miss Ida Tarbell, Colonel Henry
Watterson, August Belmont, Jenkin
Lloyd Jones, William Jennings BRYAN.
Charles A. Towne, Thomas Hastings.
Samuel Gompers, Norman Hopgood,
William Travers Jerome, Robert ].
Collier, Albert Shaw and Charles E.
Miner.
The memorial building stands on a
little hill at the foot of which is tha
spring which attracted Thomas Lincoln
and Nancy Hanks, Lincoln's father and
mother, and caused them to settle
there. 1t was on the site of the pres
ent building that they built a crude
cabin of rough, unhewn logs in the GEN.
ter of the 1l0 acres of poor land. This
cabin was just like the other cabins on
the frontier at that time. 1t had only
one room, with small loft, big out
side chimney and a huge fireplace, a
rough door which swung on leather
hinges, and when they moved into it,
not single window.
The farm and the old cabin were not
set aside to form patriotic shrine un.
til the centenary of the birth of the
great emancipation two years ago. Or
that day prominent men and womer
from all over the land made pilgrim
age to the little place near Hodgesville
With patriotic addresses the Lincoln
Farm Association took over the place
and began the work of raising the funds
with which to erect the proper memo.
rial
The dedication exercises are in CHARGE
OF committee appointed by Governor
Wilson, of which Colonel Andrew Cow
an, of Louisville, is chairman. Speeches
will be made by President Taft, Chief
Justice White, General John c. Black,
of Washington, and others. The invo-
cation will be made by Rabbi H. G.
Enelow, of Louisville, and the benedic-
ton will be pronounced by Bishop Thos.
5. Byrne, of the Roman Catholic do
cese of Nashville.