Abraham Lincoln Quote

From this place he removed to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in the autumn of 1816. Abraham then being in his eighth year....though very young, was large for his age, and had an ax put into his hands at once; and from that till within his twenty-third year he was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument—less, of course, in plowing and harvesting seasons.


A Short Autobiography (1860)


From this place he removed to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in the autumn of 1816. Abraham then being in his eighth year....though very young, ...

From this place he removed to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in the autumn of 1816. Abraham then being in his eighth year....though very young, ...

From this place he removed to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in the autumn of 1816. Abraham then being in his eighth year....though very young, ...

From this place he removed to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in the autumn of 1816. Abraham then being in his eighth year....though very young, ...