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RETURN OF MARRIAGE OF THOMAS LINCOLN AND NANCY HANKS.

From a tracing of the original, made by Henry Whitney Cleveland. This certificate was discovered about 1885 by W. F. Booker, Esq., Clerk of Washington County, Kentucky.

LINCOLN IN FEBRUARY, 1860, AT THE TIME OF THE COOPER INSTITUTE SPEECH.

From a photograph by Brady. The debate with Douglas in 1858 gave Lincoln a national reputation, and the following year he received many invitations to lecture. One came from a young men's Republican club in New York,-which was offering a series of lectures designed for an audience of men and women of the class apt to neglect ordinary political meetings. Lincoln consented, and in February, 1860 (about three months before his nomination for the Presidency), delivered what is known, from the hall in which it was delivered, as the "Cooper Institute speech "-a speech which more than confirmed his reputation. While in New York he was taken by the committee of entertainment to Brady's gallery, and sat for the portrait reproduced above. It was a frequent remark with Lincoln that this portrait and the Cooper Institute speech made him President. 3

From a photograph by Klauber of Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Graham, born in 1784, lived until 1885, and was the only man of our generation who could be called a contemporary of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. Long before the documentary evidence of their marriage was found, Mr. Graham gave his reminiscences of that event. Recent discoveries made in the public records of Kentucky regarding the Lincolns, bear out in every particular his recollections. He is, in fact, the most important witness we have as to the character of the parents of President Lincoln and their condition in life. The accuracy of his memory and the trustworthiness of his character are affirmed by the leading citizens of Louisville, Kentucky, of which city he was a resident. In the Appendix will be found a full statement by Mr. Graham of what he knew of Thomas Lincoln and his life.

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County first revealed it to us, and we cannot but regard it as of
importance, proving as it does that Thomas Lincoln was not the
shiftless man he has hitherto been pictured. Certainly he must
have been above the grade of the ordinary country boy, to have
had the energy and ambition to learn a trade and secure a farm
through his own efforts by the time he was twenty-five. He
was illiterate, never doing more "in the way of writing than to
bunglingly write his own name." Nevertheless, he had the
reputation in the country of being good-natured and obliging,
and possessing what his neighbors called "good strong horse-
sense." Although he was "a very quiet sort of man," he was
known to be determined in his opinions, and quite competent to
defend his rights by force if they were too flagrantly violated.
He was a moral man, and, in the crude way of the pioneer,
religious.

Thomas Lincoln learned his trade as carpenter in Elizabeth-
town, in the shop of one Joseph Hanks. There he met a niece