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Title: The real Lincoln : a portrait
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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brother, John D. Johnston, in January, 1851,which Herndon caused to be published, forever dispelsthe imputation that he was callous or indifferent to theneeds of his father. And yet, although Thomas Lincoln lived for overtwenty years in Coles County, Illinois, and within seventy-five miles of Springfield, he never visited his son there and,so far as is known, was never in the town. When Mr.Lincoln was wedded to Mary Todd, in November, 1842,not one of his kindred was present. Whether they wereinvited or not has never been determined. An idea of themoral and social status of the Hankses and Johnstons whoformed Thomas Lincolns household, and in whose com-pany his son Abraham grew to manhood, may be gleanedfrom incidents suggested to me by Herndon and which Icarefully investigated. In a statement furnished to Herndon in 1865, ThomasL. D. Johnston, the son of Lincolns stepbrother, John D.Johnston, says: Mr. Lincoln took a fancy to my youngerbrother also named Abraham; wanted him to come to
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TOM JOHNSTON IN JAIL 51 Springfield, live at Lincolns home, and go to school so asto get a fair start in the world; but when Mrs. Lincoln wasconsulted she objected so bitterly her husband was obligedto write to my brother and tell him the plan could not becarried out because of domestic opposition. He offered,however, to give my brother money to pay for his booksand the schooling he received at home. He died in 1861at the age of twenty-two. Another episode came to me through Henry C. Whit-ney, who was a close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and for years alawyer in Urbana, Illinois, later removing to Chicago. Iinvestigated the story and learned that Mr. Whitneysversion was fully corroborated by the court and countyrecords. In the summer of 1856, he related, when Mr. Lin-coln was one of the electors-at-large on the Fremont presi-dential ticket, a boy was assisting a man to drive somehorses to the northern part of Illinois. They stoppedovernight at Champaign, and while there the boy went toa sma

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