Lincoln, Abraham,

his ignorance concerning his ancestry i. 1;

sensitive regarding it, 1, 2;

his own statements, 2, 6;

anxious to appear of respectable stock, 2;

his genealogy as established later, 3-6;

his reputed illegitimacy, 7;

his birth, 8;

his references to his mother, 8;

his childhood, 8, 9;