The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
Ceremonies Will Take
Place Monday and Wilson
Will Speak.

~ ASSOCIATED VREsn
HODGENVILLE. KY. Sept. 2.-The
Lincoln farm OF 40 acres, the little
log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln
was born, magnificent memorial hall
which shelters 1t and an endowment
fund Of $4,000 for its maintenance
viii be presented as a gift to the ma
ton next Monday by the Lincoln Farm
Association. Impressive ceremonies at
which will be present many OF the
most important figures of the nation
and state. including President Wilson
and Secretary of War Baker, will
mark the occasion. They will be
opened by an invocation by the Rev.
Charles X. Hemphill. OF Louisville.
president Of the Presbyterian Theo-
logical Seminary OF Kentucky. The
first address will he made by former
Governor Joseph W. Folk. Of Missouri.
president Of the Lincoln Farm Asso-
citation. He will be introduced by Cen
eral John b. Castleman. Of louisville.
Mr.. Folk will be followed by Senator
John Sharp Williams, Of Mississippi,
who will deliver an address on "Abra-
ham Lincoln and the South.
Baker TO Accept Gift.
The presentation Of the deed OF gift
to the Lincoln farm will then he made
by Robert ]. Collier. OF New York,
and will be accepted by Secretary
Baker
An address by President Wilson will
follow the acceptance.
The arrangements for the cere-
monies have been in the hands of a
committee made up of several hundred
citizens Of Louisville and the state.
Henry Watterson is the honorary
chairman William Marshall Bullitt.
former solicitor general OF the United
States. is the active chairman: and
Arthur =. Krock. managing editor OF
the Courier-Journal, is secretary.
The presentation takes place n little
more than 40 years since Thomas
Lincoln's father, first laid claim to
its title
In March, 1906 Thomas Lincoln with
his bride. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, took
possession Of a farm on the banks OF
Nolin creek in Larue county, then a
part OF Hardin county. Here with his
own hands Thomas Lincoln nut nm
rude log cabin constructed or unhewn
logs. the chinks daubed with clay. and
In 1t Abraham Lincoln was born. Feb
ruary 10. 1909
Here during the next nine years he
who was to be known as the Great
Emancipation" enjoyed the only real
boyhoOd that ever came to him, for
with the removal Of Thomas Lincoln
with his family to Indiana and later
to Illinois MANY Of the burdens of
manhood were thrust upon the child's
shoulders.
Farm is Sold.
The Lincoln farm remained in the
hands Of the family Of the first pur-
chaser for about seventy years, al
though they considered it to be OF but
little value. Then it was sold to A.
w. bennett, Of New York, n wealthy
restaurant owner. who purposed to
convert 1t into a public park. Finan-
cial reverses made ii impossible for
him to carry out his intentions.
The farm had constantly declined
and presented n woeful scene of neg--
lcct and decay. So poor was it that
caretaker into whose hands it was
given in consideration of his agree
ment to pay the taxes was considered
by his neighbors to have made bad
bargain, because the land would not
produce enough Of value to pay the
taxes and the value Of his labor.
short time later the little log.
cabin which Thomas Lincoln had built
for his bride. and in which Abraham
Lincoln was born. was sold to a trav-
cling chairman 1Tp ~,