Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: His Favorite Poems and Poets I was travelling through portions of the State of Illinois giving concerts. Our troupe was well known then as The Newhall Family. In those days our travelling was done almost entirely by stage or private conveyance. There were no railroads in that portion of Illinois, the old Eighth Circuit, and we were making what was later called one night stands in thriving towns. When we had been about a week in our circuit there appeared at the hotel one evening, just before ...
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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: His Favorite Poems and Poets I was travelling through portions of the State of Illinois giving concerts. Our troupe was well known then as The Newhall Family. In those days our travelling was done almost entirely by stage or private conveyance. There were no railroads in that portion of Illinois, the old Eighth Circuit, and we were making what was later called one night stands in thriving towns. When we had been about a week in our circuit there appeared at the hotel one evening, just before our concert, three men on horseback, who turned out to be a congressman from that dis trict then making a canvass for a second term, the chairman of his committee, whose name I do not remember, and a very homely, ungainly looking man whether on horseback or on foot, whose name was given as Lincoln. None of my family had at that time ever heard of Mr. Lincoln, and so he was equally a stranger to us with the others. As we were, in a way, public characters, we introduced all' around, and that evening - these gentlemen having held their political meeting in the afternoon attended our concert in one of the local churches. For eight days followmg that we traveled with this trio of political cam paigners, and as their meetings were always held in the after noon in order to give the farmers an opportunity to attend, the three gentlemen attended our concerts, we giving them compli mentary tickets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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