...written by myself. Yours very truly, A. Lincoln I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished...some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon counties, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia,...

...myself. Yours very truly, Abraham Lincoln I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished...mother, who died in my tenth year was of a family of the Hanks, some of who now reside in Adams, and others in Macon County in Illinois. My paternal grandfather,...

...Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died...some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon counties, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia,...

...Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died...tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks. . . . My father . . . removed from Kentucky to . . . Indiana, in my eighth year. ... It was a wild...

...was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon Counties, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln,...Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky, about 1781 or "i, where, a year or two later, he was killed by Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was...

...and German.56 Ancestry In the autobiographical sketch penned for Jesse Fell in 1859, Lincoln wrote, "My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished...families — second families, perhaps I should say." Without being ashamed of his ancestry, he called attention to his commonness, thereby shaping his own...

...his chances for a presidential nomination, he offered only the barest outline of his family history: "My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished...families — second families, perhaps I should say." The next year, when John Locke Scripps of the Chicago Tribune proposed to write his campaign biography,...

...which in 1858 his friends were able to wrest from him for a campaign biography, he made this statement: "My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family...the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, some others in Macon Counties, Illinois." As we have seen, the Hankses in Adams County were Joseph...

..."education defective."153 In yet another autobiographical document prepared the following year Lincoln said, "My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished...families — second families, perhaps I should say." He again pointed out that his father "grew up, litterally without education." In childhood he had found...

...undistinguished families — second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my loth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams and others in Macón County, 111. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Va.,...