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    © Abraham Lincoln Online

    Lincoln's Autobiographies
    of 1858-60

    June 1858

    Abraham Lincoln wrote three autobiographies in a two-year period.

    This first, terse effort was prepared at the request of Charles Lanman, who was compiling the Dictionary of Congress.

    Born, February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky.
    Education defective.
    Profession, a lawyer.
    Have been a captain of volunteers in Black Hawk war.
    Postmaster at a very small office.
    Four times a member of the Illinois legislature, and was a member of the lower house of Congress.

    December 20, 1859

    Lincoln wrote this second autobiography for Jesse Fell, a long-time Illinois Republican friend who was a native of Pennsylvania.

    Fell used his influence to get the piece incorporated into an article appearing in a Pennsylvania newspaper on February 11, 1860. Lincoln enclosed the autobiography in a letter to Fell, remarking, "There is not much of it, for the reason, I suppose, that there is not much of me."

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