Abe's Youth : Shaping the Future President.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartelt, William E.

Contributor:

Claybourn, Joshua A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

Indiana--Biography.

Indiana.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Childhood and youth.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Abe's Youth offers indispensable reading for anyone hoping to learn about Lincoln's early life.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part 1. Lincoln's Hoosier Influences

1. Lincoln's Boyhood Days in Indiana / Roscoe Kiper

2. Lincoln's Environment in Indiana / Roscoe Kiper

3. Lincoln in Indiana / William Fortune

Part 2. Lincoln's Neighbors and Influences

4. Lincoln's Indiana Neighbors / Bess V. Ehrmann

5. Life of James Gentry Jr. / J. Helen Rhoades

6. The Grigsbys / Bess V. Ehrmann

7. More Lincoln Memories / Nancy Grigsby Inco

8. Biographical Sketch of Josiah and Elizabeth (Anderson) Crawford / William Franklin Adams

9. Daniel Grass / Laura Mercy Wright

10. The Athe Meeks Sr. Tragedy / Aaron Meeks

11. The Mystery of Lincoln's Melancholy / Louis A. Warren

12. Lincoln and the Wool-Carder's Beautiful Niece / Jesse N. Weik

13. Word Pictures of Pioneer Families and Lincoln Contemporaries / Bess V. Ehrmann

14. Interviews with Spencer County Pioneers about 1895 / T. H. Masterson

15. Early Days in Spencer County / Elbert Daniel Hayford

Part 3. Lincoln's Neighborhood and Environment

16. The Lincolns and Their Home in Spencer County, Indiana / C. C. Schreeder

17. An Interview with James Atlas Jones on the Lincoln Cabin in Spencer County / George H. Honig

18. The Lincolns' Eastward Environment / Thomas James de la Hunt

19. Some Early Troy History / Sallie Bergenroth

20. Early Agriculture in Spencer County, Indiana / David H. Morgan

21. Materia Medica of Pioneer Indiana / Belle V. Knapp

Part 4. Lincoln and the Law

22. Environment and Opportunities of Lincoln in Indiana / Elbert Daniel Hayford

23. John A. Brackenridge / Eldora Minor Raleigh

24. John Pitcher / Alice L. Harper Hanby

25. Judge John Pitcher / John E. Cox

Part 5. The Indiana Lincoln Inquiry.

26. The Environments of Abraham Lincoln in Indiana: The Best Witnesses / Anna C. O'Flynn

27. The Lincolns in Spencer County / Ida D. Armstrong

28. The Artist's Ideal of Lincoln / George H. Honig

29. What Indiana Did for Lincoln / Bess V. Ehrmann

30. Correspondence between Lincoln Historians and This Society / John E. Iglehart

Lincoln and Southwestern Indiana Chronology

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780253043924

9780253043900

0253043905