In the footsteps of the Lincolns /
Young Samuel Lincoln, who had been apprenticed as a weaver in England, arrived in the Puritan colony of Boston Bay in 1637. Ida M. Tarbell traces the generations from Samuel to Abraham Lincoln, offering rich details of character and circumstance and showing that the president's ancestors were n...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Harper & Brothers,
1924.
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| Series: | Core collection.
U.S. presidential library. Spinelli's law library reference shelf. |
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| Summary: | Young Samuel Lincoln, who had been apprenticed as a weaver in England, arrived in the Puritan colony of Boston Bay in 1637. Ida M. Tarbell traces the generations from Samuel to Abraham Lincoln, offering rich details of character and circumstance and showing that the president's ancestors were not precisely as his detractors painted them. She takes Abraham Lincoln from the cabin of his birth to the White House, where he is introduced to a nation in crisis. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 418 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles. |
