Abraham Lincoln grew up in Indiana. Indiana was the state of his formation as an adolescent and it was a state that helped form his political future in when Indiana Republicans teamed with Republicans from Illinois to engineer his nomination for President. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. If a straggler supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard.
There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three; but that was all.
I have not been to school since. In another autobiography written six months later, Mr. He settled in an unbroken forest; and the clearing away of surplus wood was the great task a head.
At this place A. A few days before the completion of his eighth year, in the absence of his father, a flock of wild turkeys approached the new log-cabin, and A. He has never since pulled a trigger on any larger game. In the autumn of his mother died; and a year afterwards his father married Mrs. Sally Johnston, at Elizabeth-Town, Ky β a widow, with three children of her first marriage.
She proved a good and kind mother to A. There were no children of this second marriage. While here A. He does not remember any other. The family of Mr. Dorsey now reside in Schuyler Co. He was never in a college or Academy as a student; and never inside of a college or academy building till since he had a law-license. What he has in the way of education, he has picked up. Lincoln stayed away from the state for a dozen years until he returned to Indiana in late October As a Whig politician he gave campaign speeches in Bruceville, Vincennes, and Washington and reconnected with his childhood roots.
