McClure's Magazine
Vol. VI. No. 549
DECEMBER, 1895.
No. 1.
CONTENTS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
THE LOVE OF THE PRINCE OF GLOTTENBERG, By Anthony Hope
MADONNA AND CHILD IN ART, By Will H. Low
CHAPTERS FROM A LIFE, By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
THE UNDERSTUDY, By Robert Barr
THE HEROINE OF A FAMOUS SONG,
THE TRUE STORY OF ANNIE LAURIE, By Frank Pope Humphrey
A POINT OF KNUCKLIN' DOWN, By Ella Higginson
THE SUN'S HEAT, By Sir Robert Ball
HALL CAINE, STORY OF HIS LIFE AND WORK, By Robert Harborough Sherard
NEIGHBOR KING, By Collins Shackelford
THROUGH THE DARDANELLES, by Cy Warman
THE EARLIEST PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN,
LETTERS IN REGARD TO THE FRONTISPIECE OF THE NOVEMBER McCLURE'S
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Edited by Ida M. Tarbell.
II.
LIFE IN INDIANA.\u2014REMOVAL TO ILLINOIS.\ue000LINCOLN STARTS OUT IN LIFE
FOR HIMSELF AT TWENTY-ONE.\ue001THE BUILDING OF THE FLATBOAT AND THE
TRIP TO NEW ORLEANS.\ue002LINCOLN HIRES OUT AS A GROCERY CLERK IN NEW
SALEM.\ue003HIS FIRST VOTE.
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INDIANA REMINISCENCES OF LINCOLN.
Abraham Lincoln grew to manhood in Southern Indiana. When he reached Spencer County in 1816, he was
seven years of age; when he left in 1830, he had passed his twenty-first birthday. This period of a life shows
usually the natural bent of the character, and we have found in these fourteen years of Lincoln's life signs of
the qualities of greatness which distinguished him. We have seen that, in spite of the fact that he had no wise
direction, that he was brought up by a father with no settled purpose, and that he lived in a pioneer
community, where a young man's life at best is but a series of makeshifts, he had developed a determination to
make something out of himself, and a desire to know, which led him to neglect no opportunity to learn.
The only unbroken outside influence which directed and stimulated him in his ambitions was that coming first
from his mother, then from his step-mother. It should never be forgotten that these two women, both of them
of unusual earnestness and sweetness of spirit, were one or the other of them at the boy's side throughout this
period. The ideal they held before him was the simple ideal of the early American, that if a boy is upright and
industrious he may aspire to any place within the gift of the country. The boy's nature told him they were
right. Everything he read confirmed their teachings, and he cultivated, in every way open to him, his passion
to know and to be something.
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REV. ALLEN BROONER.
A neighbor of Thomas Lincoln, still living near Gentryville. Mr. Brooner's wife was a friend of Nancy Hanks
Lincoln. The two women died within a few days of each other, and were buried side by side. When the
tombstone was placed at Mrs. Lincoln's grave, no one could state positively which was Mrs. Brooner's and
which Mrs. Lincoln's grave. Mr. Allen Brooner gave his opinion, and the stone was placed; but the iron fence
incloses both graves, which lie in a half-acre tract of land owned by the United States government. Mr. Allen
Brooner, after his wife's death, became a minister of the United Brethren Church, and moved to Illinois. He
received his mail at New Salem when Abraham Lincoln was the postmaster at that place. Mr. Brooner
confirms Dr. Holland's story that "Abe" once walked three miles after his day's work, to make right a
six-and-a-quarter-cents mistake he had made in a trade with a woman. Like all of the old settlers of
Gentryville, he remembers the departure of the Lincolns for Illinois. "When the Lincolns were getting ready to
leave," says Mr. Brooner, "Abraham and his stepbrother, John Johnston, came over to our house to swap a
horse for a yoke of oxen. 'Abe' was always a quiet fellow. John did all the talking, and seemed to be the
smartest of the two. If any one had been asked that day which would make the greatest success in life, I think
the answer would have been John Johnston."
There are many proofs that young Lincoln's characteristics were recognized at this period by his associates, that his determination to excel, if not appreciated, yet made its imprint. In 1865, thirty-five years after he left Gentryville, Mr. Herndon, anxious to save all that was known of Lincoln in Indiana, went among his old
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