The early life of Abraham Lincoln: / containing many unpublished documents and unpublished reminiscences of Lincoln's early friends
Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
THE EARLIEST PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.—HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED. From a carbon enlargement, by Sherman and McHugh, New York, of a daguerreotype in the possession of the Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, and first published in the McClure’s Life of Lincoln. It is generally believed that Lincoln was not over thirty-five years old when this daguerreotype was taken, and it is certainly true that it shows the face of Lincoln as a young man. It is probably earlier by six or seven years, at least, than any other existing portrait of Lincoln.
IDA M. TARBELL
ASSISTED BY
J. McCAN DAVIS
WITH 160 ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING
20 PORTRAITS OF LINCOLN
NEW YORK
S. S. McCLURE, Limited
LONDON
1896
Ida M. Tarbell
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INTRODUCTION.
CONTENTS.
THOMAS LINCOLN’S BOYHOOD AND YOUNG MANHOOD.
A NEW HOME IN INDIANA.
ABRAHAM BECOMES A LABORER.
INFLUENCE OF THE RIVER LIFE.
EARLY SORROWS.
FROM INDIANA TO ILLINOIS.
LINCOLN’S POPULARITY IN SANGAMON.
AN EXCITING ADVENTURE.
A SECOND ADVENTURE.
NEW ORLEANS IN 1831.
IN CHARGE OF DENTON OFFUTT’S STORE.
THE CLARY’S GROVE BOYS.
LINCOLN STUDIES GRAMMAR.
LINCOLN A CAPTAIN.
LINCOLN AND HIS COMPANY ENTER MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
LOOKING FOR WORK.
DECIDES TO BUY A STORE.
BERRY AND LINCOLN GET A TAVERN LICENSE.
THE FIRM HIRES A CLERK.
A NEW OPENING.
SURVEYING WITH A GRAPEVINE.
THE KINDNESS SHOWN LINCOLN IN NEW SALEM.
LINCOLN’S ACQUAINTANCE IN SANGAMON COUNTY IS EXTENDED.
THE ILLINOIS ASSEMBLY OF 1834.
ANN RUTLEDGE’S ENGAGEMENT TO JOHN McNEILL.
ANN’S ENGAGEMENT TO LINCOLN.
APPENDIX.
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