Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — To Nationalize Lincoln's Birthplace [ARTICLE]

To Nationalize Lincoln's Birthplace

The movement is on foot for the purchase of the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln for the purpose of forming it Into a national park. The promoters* intend to form an association, whose objects shall be to improve the farm, long neglected; and to restore to its'original character tEI cabin in which the President was born. It is three miles south of Hogdenville, Ivy., and is no longer In Hardin County, but in Larne County, a new” division* of the State. <. •Should any one ask me, what la the first thing in religion? I would reply, the first,' second and third therein, nay, all, U humility.