From a photograph owned by Mr. George Schneider of Chicago, Illinois, former editor of the "Staats Zeitung," the most influential anti-slavery German newspaper of the West. Mr. Schneider first met Mr. Lincoln in 1853, in Springfield. "He was already a man necessary to know," says Mr. Schneider. In 1854 Mr. Lincoln was in Chicago, and Mr. Isaac N. Arnold, a prominent lawyer and politician of Illinois, invited Mr. Schneider to dine with Mr. Lincoln. After dinner, as the gentlemen were going down town, they stopped at an itinerant photograph gallery, and Mr. Lincoln had the above picture taken for Mr. Schneider. The newspaper he holds in his hands is the Press and Tribune." THE EARLY LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN OF THE LINCOLN FAMILY.-THE LINCOLNS IN KENTUCKY. HE family from which Abraham Lincoln descended came to America from Norfolk, England, in 1637. A brief table will show at a glance the line of descent: * Samuel Lincoln, born in 1620. Emigrated from was Mordecai Lincoln, born in 1686. Emigrated to New Jersey and John Lincoln, born before 1725. In 1758 went to Virginia. His Abraham Lincoln, date of birth uncertain. In 1780, or there- ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Sixteenth President of the United States. For our present purpose it is not necessary to examine the lives of these ancestors farther back than the grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, who has been supposed to have been born in Virginia in 1760. A consideration of the few facts we have of his early life shows clearly that this date is wrong. It is known that *This table was prepared especially for this work by the Hon. L. E. Chittenden of New York, Register of the Treasury under Mr. Lincoln. In the Appendix will be found a full memorandum of Lincoln's genealogy, also prepared by Mr. Chittenden. |