The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14


Try, James Buchanan. the elder. opened
small linen shop and managed 10 cke
'ut rather prccarious existence. Fiv ,
cars after his arrival Tn America he
Ecdded Elizabeth Specr, the daughter
respectable farmer. stakcd out a
iaim In the wild Allegheny country
ma proceeded to make, Il comfortable
Some for himself.
| Lincoln Came From the "Puor White"
Class.
Both Thomas Lincoln, the father of
ne Great Emancipation. anI Jacob
Johnson. the father OF the Vice Presi-
dent who served out Lincolns uncx-
pircd term, belonged to the dcspised
CLASS known south as poor whites"
| Both came originally from English
STOCK, but bincoln's American ancestry
was distincttvcly Puritan. beginning
with Samuel Lincoln. who came TO
The town Of bingham. Mass. some lime
| between 1855 and 1916. Many of the
descendants OF this Lincoln were prom
| meme in the carly history OF tn: Mas
| sachusetts colony. About the begin
ming OF the last century representa-
! lives of the family began 10 drift
| southwark, first to New Jersey. ,h,n
| to Pennsylvania and finally TO Virgil
MIA. Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather
OF the President, who was named after
| hun, sold his property in Virginia, and
| moved himself and Ills family into the
| Kentucky wilderness. ~ the time OF
MS death. 1888. he seems to have been
! IN fairly comfortable circumstances.
His eldest son. Mordecai. Inherited inc
! bulk of the estate, and the younger
brothers were left to scratch TOR them
selves. Thomas. the youngest, was the
father of the President. He was pro-
baoly the poorest Lincoln who ever
/ lived, but his son became tho Ereatcst
m In g. III,
descent, the former with an ancestry
mat made no especial claim OF noDle
and ancient lineage and the lattor
rather more prctentious. easily traced
back, II is claimed, TO 1880, when Hayes
and Rutherford were two Scottish
chieftains lighting side b. side with
Baliol William Wallace and Robert
| Bruce. The Hayes family has always
made point of It's coat OF arins-a
| shield barred and surmountcd by a
, lying eagle About the eagle and above
the shield Is circle of stars. while
on scroll underneath the shield /.
inscribed the motto ''Rcctc.r The father
OF president Hayes was an industrious,
frugal and open hearted man ~ho was
OF mechanical turn and could mend
plow. knl, stocking or do almost
anything else nc chose TO Undertake &"
Al the close or the war of 1872. he
| cmigratcd from his native Brattleboro
VI, to Ohio.
The father of James y. GARFIELD was
native of Worcester, Otscgo county.
\. Y, and his mother, Eliza Ballou.
| was native Of New Hampshire and n
relative of Hosea Ballou. the famous
| preacher. The Garhclds were conspic-
| uous in colonial history and their re-
mote ancestry is traced castl,, back TO
Welsh and Bnslish sourcea
Forcbears of Our Inter Prcnideuts.
In 1918 young fello or eighteen
named William Arthur crossed the At
lnntic Ocean In one OF the numbering
and uncomfortable packets which piled
lbctween the north coast OF Ireland
and the Canadian ports. lie was a de-
sccndRat OF the Scotch Enslish settlers
| in Ballymenn, County Antrim, ireland
la bright ;3unG man. graduate az
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