The Life and Public Services of Hon.: Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life and Public Services of Hon.: Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine

It was among such influences as these that our young pioneer grew up to carve out for himself a distinguished manhood. Mr. Lincoln barely received the rudimentary elements of a common English education. Probably six months will cover the whole period spent by him within the rude log walls of the schoolhouse of the paternal settlement. Endowed with quick faculties, ambition, and energy, the youth of Mr. Lincoln was not lost in idleness, or wasted in vain pursuits.

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