Arizona republican., 1911-11-07

| 110 acres of poor land. This cabin was just like the other cabins on the front
 fer at that time. It had only one room with a small loft. a big outside chim-
 ney and a huge fireplace. a rough door which swung on leather hinges and when they moved into it, not a single widow
 The farm and the old cabin were not set 10 form a patriotic shrine until the centenary of the birth of the great
 emancipator two years ago. On that day prominent men and women from
 all over the land made a pilgrimage to
 the little place near Hodgenville. With
 patriotic addresses the Lincoln Farm
 association took over the place and be-
 gun the work of raising the funds
 with which to erect the proper memor-
 ial. Until the association took it over
 the title of the farm had only changed
 twice previously It had taken
 Robert J. Collier four years to clear
 Lincoln's birthplace Of all legal en-
 tanglements and litigation.
 About five years after Abraham Lin coin was born his father sold the
 farm to neighbor named GreaI. whose family kept it for nearly sev- enty years. Then it was bought, b. A. A Dennett. ot New York, with the purpose of turning it into some sort Of national park.
 While the farm was in possession of the Greal family, the old cabin n which Lincoln was born. was carte1 to the Davenport farm, a mile and q half nearer Hodgenville. The Daven- ports used it as a spring house But the owner gave it to Mir. Dennett and it was placed on its original site in 1895.
 MT. Dennett's religious prOclivities led him to turn over the farm to the Rev. J. ". Bingham, a Methodist Evangelist from Florida, whose pur- pose it was to make the farm a place for summer camp meetings. He was disuaded from doing this, but took the old cabin to pieces and, setting it up again. exhibited it all over the country to get the money to carry on his evan gelistic work It was finally put away in a storage wrehouse in Long Island City. N. Y.
 During this time no steps were taken to turn the farm into a park. For while this project was forgotten. but several years later a bill was introduc- cd into the legislature of Kentucky au- thOrizing the purchase of the property by the state, but it failed of passage. Then the Dennett estate became in- i'm, ft property was bought by Robert J. Collier for s3.6OO.
 MT. Collier then formed the Lincoln Farm association and on Lincoln's two years ago he deeded the farm to it. The association sent at torneys throughout that portion of Ken lucky to interview old settlers and take concerning the real birth place of Lincoln, because a number of persons had declared that the martyr president had first seen light in eastern Kentucky. near Bersa college. The deposition established the fact that Lincoln was born on the spot now marked by the Memorial build l ing, which is to be dedicated tomorrow. :
 Soon after this if was learned that the old cabin was about to be purchas- i ed by Longg Island snowman and Mir. ! Collied immediately bought it and turn 1 ed it over to the association. The : trustees at once decided to send the ', logs back to Kentucky and restore the cabin on its Ori0inal site. The Penn i sylvania railroad gave a special train Tor the transportation and a large store ! q lor Beckham, of Kentucky, sent a de- 1