Rise of the Rail Splitter
Abraham Lincoln. Exercise book fragment, ca. 1825. Manuscript. |
This fragment contains mathematical exercises in the hand of Lincoln when he was a teenager. Lincoln’s former law partner, William Henry Herndon (1844-1891), received this leaf from Lincoln’s stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln (1788-1869), in 1866 when he was collecting documentation for his planned biography of the late president. MS Am 1326 Gift of Christian A. Zabriskie, 1954. |
