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Identifier: reminiscencesabomclinc (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
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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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« Twas Not a Fable. Do. you remember in McGuffeys readers there was a poem about a tureen Mountain mother who was lost on the hillside in a Vermont fm-TJ HT+r husband had gone aheadto! help. It was bitterly cold, and themother removed most of her clothes tT,r.aPP,ed, them about the ifant andI tucked him into a snowdrift f,H-,elP 7af comin?- They found thefather fallen. With two fingers hepointed m the direction of the motherand lost consciousness. Thev foundthe mother. She pointed to the snow-drift and breathed her last. Theyfound the infant cooing in its bundleand playing with one shoe. Thatmother was Mrs. McDowells grand-mother. 6 The wrinkled face chuckledYou know P. t. Barnum pitchedto +Mcenng CJrCUS in this lot «extnanrw, ^ h°USe and he himselfhanded me up to the howdah on theelephant for a ride. I have had manyexperiences, she smiled, and Ihope you will come again. <? : wMHrit-nah . John Sherman Mcintosh, Major E. W» Bloomington, 111. MAJOR WHO KNEW LINCOLN IN EARLY DAYS.
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Major E. W. Mcintosh. I One of the few men still living whohad the pleasure of knowing and work-ing with tho Illinois rail splitter beforehe became known as an internationalfigure, is Maj. B. W. Mcintosh, whonow lives iii Omaha, Neb. Mr. Mcln-;osh and his drum are well known atill reunions of the old army boys, for(tories and drum beat of the familiar>ersonage, who, though old in years, isitill young in spirit. He recounts withleasure the early days in Illinois whene had the distinction of being em-loyed by the man who afterward be-ame president of the United States,lis home was then near that of Mr..(incoln, and while Lincoln was cut-ting out his career it was young Mcin-tosh who, as a boy, helped as best hecould his employer. Later, when theIllinois attorney entered politics it wasyoung Mcintosh who, with his drum,beat out the long rolls at the head ofthe procession in the John C. Fremontcampaign of 1856. Later in the Lin-coln campaign, when he was a youngman, he headed the Wide

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