The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-11-07
LINCOLN MEMORIAL FARM
READY FOR DEDICATION
Exercises to Be Held Thursday at
the Birthplace OF the Martyr
President-Taft to Speak.
Associated Press Special.


ators, congressman and men prom
inent in literature and in public life.
The Lincoln farm is located near
Hodgenyille, and large number OF
ceremonies.
The imposing building of granite,
which is to figure in the exercises
Thursday, enshrines the humble
log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln
was born 102 years ago. The Lincoln
Farm Association will turn over the
farm the Memorial building, which
has been erected at cost of $112,,
COS, and 5000 for maintenance,
to the federal government and il
will be formally received by the
president
Chiseled into tho granite on one
side of the building is the following
inscription:
Here, over the log cabin where
Abraham Lincoln was born, destin-
ed to preserve the Union and Free
the slave, a grateful people nave
dedicated this memorial to unity,
peace and brotherhood among these
! states
| When the Memorial Farm and the
building are accepted by President
Taft the entire military establish
ment of Kentucky, several regi-
ments of the regular army OF the
United States and many ,encamp7
megts of the Grand Army of the Re-
public and of the Confederate Vet
Grams will salute More than score
of special trains will be run from
Louisville to carry the thousands
who will be present.
The Lincoln Farm Association,
under the auspices Of which the
work of erecting the memorial has
been done, is composed of some of
the most prominent men in the coun-
try. The president is former Cover
nor Joseph w Folk of Missouri. Tho
other officers are Clarence II. Mack
ay, treasurer; Charles f, Miner, as i
sistant treasurer; Richard NJ. Jones, |
secretary; and Robert ], Collier,
chairman of the executive commit
tee.
| The members of the board of trus-
/ tees are President Taft, Cardinal
Gibbons, Gen. Horace Porter, Jos
eph Choate, Oscar 8 Strauss, Cover
nor Augustus Wilson of Kentucky.
Supreme Court Justice Charles
E. Hughes, Lyman ]. Gage, Miss
Tarbell, Col. Henry Watterson, Au-
gust Belmont, Jenkin Lloyd Jones,
William Jennings Bryan, Charles A. !
Towne, Thomas Hastings, Samuel
Gompers, Norman Hapgood, William /
Travers Jerome, Robert j. Collier, !
Albert Shaw and Charles L. Miner. |
The late Mark Twain was mem !
Der of the board, as was the later i
Edward NJ Shepard.
The Memorial building stands Ola
a little hill, at the foot OF which is
the 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 present building that the newt,
welded pair built crude cabin OF
rough, unhewn logs in the center of
the 40 acres of poor land. This
cabin was just like the other cabins
on the frontier at that time, 1t had
only one room, with a small loft, a
| big outside chimney and huge fire
| place, rough door which swung on
leather hinges and, when they NOV
1 ed into it, not a single window.
The farm and the old cabin were
not set aside to form patriotic
! shrine until the century of the
| birth of the great emancipation two
| years ago. On that day prominent
men and women from all over the
land, made pilgrimage to the little
place near Hodgenville. With patri-
otie addresses the Lincoln Farm AS
| ISOLATION took over the place and be
| gan the work of raising the funds
| with which TO erect the proper men,
| orial. Until the association took II
over the title of the farm had only
changed twice previously. 1t had TAX
4 en- Robert j. Collier four years tc
clear Lincoln's birthplace of all lie
gal entanglements and litigation.
About five years after Abraham
Lincoln was born his father sold the
farm to a neighbor named Creal
4 whose family kept it for nearly sew
enty years Then it was bought by A
A. bennett, of New York, with the
purpose of turning it into some sort
OF national park
While the farm was in the posses
sion OF the Creal family, the old
cabin in which Lincoln was born
was carted to the Davenport farm, {
mile and half near Hodgenyille
The Davenports used it as a sprins
house But the owner gave II TO Mr.
bennett and II was placed on its ori
gnal site in 1895
Mr. Dement'S religious proclivities
led him to turn over the farm TO the
Rev. W Bingham. a Methodist
evangelist from Florida, whose pun
pose il was 20 make the farm a place
for summer camp meetings He was
/ dissuaded from doing this but TOOK
The old cabin to pieces and, setting