Lincoln College - Lynxite Yearbook (Lincoln, IL)

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Letter to Honorable J. W. Fell I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. my parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - secondfamilies, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks . . . My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lin- coln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to about 1781 or 2, where, a year or two later, he was killed by Indians, not in bat- tle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest . .' . My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up, litterally Csicl without education. He yyi emoved from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year. We ilgl iz our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild .re- gion, with many bears and other wild animals, still in the woods. There Igrewup...' . , At twenty-one I came to Illinois, and passed the first Macon County, Then I got to New Salem where I remained a year a sort of Clerk in a store. Then came the Black-Hawk warg andllwas elected a Captain of Volunteers - asuccessfwhich gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went the campaign, was elated, ran for the-Legislature the same year H8325 and was beaten - the only time I everllatiiave been beaten by the people. The next, and three succeeding biennial elections, I was elected to the Legislature. I was not a candidate afterwards. Dur- ing this legislative period I had studied law, and removed to Springfield to practice it. In 1846 I was once elected to the lower4House of ftt, C ongress. Was not a candidate for re-election. From 1849itol 18541, both iiaciusive, practiced law more assiduously than ever before. A Always a Whig in ,poli- tics, and generally on the whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses - I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Com- promisearoused me again. What I have since then is pretty Well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it be said, I am, in height, six feet, four' inches, nearlyg lean in flesh, Weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds, dark complexion, with coarse 'black hair, and grey eyes - no other marks or brands recollected.. r ' Yours very truly, Ai Lincoln December, 1859 . B as

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