The Missing Chapter in the Life of Abraham Lincoln: A Number of Articles, Episodes, Photographs, Pen and Ink Sketches Concerning the Life of Abraham Lincoln in Spencer County, Indiana, Between 1816-18 - Softcover

Bess Virginia Ehrmann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282968660 ISBN 13: 9780282968663

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Missing Chapter in the Life of Abraham Lincoln: A Number of Articles, Episodes, Photographs, Pen and Ink Sketches Concerning the Life of Abraham Lincoln in Spencer County, Indiana, Between 1816-1830 and 1844

The writing of these pages, concerning Lincoln's life in Indiana, has been done to preserve in book form some of the incidents that occurred in his life in Spencer County, Indiana, from 1816-1830 and in 1844; and also to make available for future historians some facts not generally known concerning research work on his life here.

In 1920 Mr. John E. Iglehart of Evansville, Indiana, founded the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society and shortly after coined the phrase, The Lincoln Inquiry. He realized there was a missing chapter in Lincoln's life, the fourteen formative years spent in Indiana, which had never been written by historians and which could never be written by outsiders who would perhaps spend a few days in investigation in Spencer County; but it should be written, and by the children and grandchildren of those people who knew Lincoln in his boyhood days.

Mr. Iglehart said that it was the people who live near the scenes of Lincoln's early life who are best able to inter pret its environment. They are intimately acquainted with the descendants of his boyhood friends, have heard the stories of his life as related by their elders, therefore, ought to be in a position to write more understandingly of those early days.

Having been born in Spencer County of the third genera tion on my grandfather's side and the fourth on my grand mother's and having lived here practically all my life, I have known the children and grandchildren of Lincoln's neighbors.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0282968660
• ISBN 13: 9780282968663
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 222