Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1918 — ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS— [ARTICLE]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS—

BORN in Hardin county, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809. MADE CAPTAIN of a comany in Richmond, Hl., for service in the Black Hawk war, April 21, 1832. ELEQTED CONGRESSMAN from . Illinois in 1846. ACCLAIMED ORATOR IN 1858 after his famous slavery debates with Senator Douglas. ELECTED PRESIDENT of the United States November 6, 1860. HAILED SLAVES’ EMANCIPATOR by virtue of his proclamation issued January 1, 1863. SHOT AND KILLED by John Wilkes Booth, in Ford's theatre, Washington, the night of April 14. 1865.