Abraham Lincoln (1897) (14775275014)

Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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ctions. It seems ))robable that not muchsunshine fell across her path, even during her girlhood, in Virginia.IShe had been dependent upon friends for a home. By circumstancesbeyond her control she had been compelled to accept uncongenial lifeon the frontier. Her asjjirations were far diffeient from those of herkind-hearted husband. She heard voices which he could not hear.Her discerning eyes beheld what he never would be able to see. Shallwe wonder that the sadness deepened upon her countenance ? Seem-ingly it was not much she could do to lift her offspring to a better lifethan her own had been; but human vision does not Icach down to thesprings which underlie character. The world never will know the great-ness of its debt to her for doing what she could in stamping her ownlofty conception of duty and obligation upon the hearts and consciencesof her children. October had come. The forest was arrayed in glory. The harvestwas at hand. There had ever been loving intimacy and sympathy be-
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.(^^ JUNCTION OF SALT RIVER WITH THE OHIO, WHERE THOMAS LINCOLNS BOAT WAS CAPSIZED. (From a photograph taken by the author, 1800.) 28 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.