A Digest Of The Wit And Wisdom Of Abraham Lincoln Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from A Digest of the Wit and Wisdom of Abraham LincolnIn a short autobiography Abraham Lincoln wrote I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. The son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, young Lincoln was reared to a typical frontier farm life of crop planting and harvesting. During these years, he also did his share of forest clearing and rail splitting and helped to build the family homestead from the virgin forest. As a young man the Lincoln family moved to Southern Indiana where he spent his formative years.Possessed of less than one year's formal education, as a youngster, Lincoln was a constant reader. By reading Lincoln improved upon his lack of schooling. In 1830 when Lincoln was 21 years old, the fam ily moved to Illinois settling near Decatur. The following year at the age of 22, Lincoln moved to New Salem, Illinois.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.