Description
Book SynopsisAbe's Youth offers indispensable reading for anyone hoping to learn about Lincoln's early life.
Trade Review"Abe's Youth offers a fascinating, in-depth examination of the future president and the time and environment in which he grew up."
-- Johnson County Historical Society
"Abe's Youth is positively fascinating, and not just for those who are interested in Abraham Lincoln. This book in many ways provides a history of the first 100 years of Spencer County, IN."
-- Kathy Tretter * The Spencer County Leader *
Abe's Youth provides a convenient way to access some of the important work of the Indiana Lincoln Inquiry.
* Indiana Magazine of History *
Table of ContentsForeword
Preface
Introduction
Works from Indiana's Lincoln Inquiry
Part 1: Lincoln's Hoosier Influences
1. Lincoln's Boyhood Days in Indiana / Roscoe Kiper
2. Lincoln's Environment in Indiana / Roscoe Kiper
3. Lincoln in Indiana / William Fortune
Part 2: Lincoln's Neighbors and Influences
4. Lincoln's Indiana Neighbors / Bess V. Ehrmann
5. Life of James Gentry Jr. / J. Helen Rhoades
6. The Grigsbys / Calder (Bess) Ehrmann
7. More Lincoln Memories / Nancy Grigsby Inco
8. Biographical Sketch of Josiah and Elizabeth (Anderson) Crawford / Will Adams
9. Daniel Grass / Laura Mercy Wright
10. The Athe Meeks Sr. Tragedy / Aaron Meeks
11. The Mystery of Lincoln's Melancholy / Louis A. Warren
12. Lincoln and the Wool-Carder's Beautiful Niece / Jesse N. Weik
13. Word Pictures of Pioneer Families and Lincoln Contemporaries / Bess V. Ehrmann
14. Interviews with Spencer County Pioneers about 1895 / T. H. Masterson
15. Early Days in Spencer County / Daniel Hayford
Part 3: Lincoln's Neighborhood and Environment
16. The Lincolns and Their Home in Spencer County, Indiana / C. C. Scheeder
17. An Interview with James Atlas Jones on the Lincoln Cabin in Spencer County / George H. Honig
18. The Lincolns' Eastward Environment / Thomas James de la Hunt
19. Some Early Troy History / Sallie Bergenroth
20. Early Agriculture in Spencer County, Indiana / David H. Morgan
21. Materia Medica of Pioneer Indiana / H. C. Knapp
Part 4: Lincoln and the Law
22. Environment and Opportunities of Lincoln in Indiana / Elbert Hayford
23. John A. Brackenridge / Eldora Minor Raleigh
24. John Pitcher / Alice L. Harper Hanby
25. Judge John Pitcher / John E. Cox
Part 5: The Lincoln Inquiry
26. The Environments of Abraham Lincoln in Indiana: The Best Witnesses / Anna C. O'Flynn
27. The Lincolns in Spencer County / Ida D. Armstrong
28. The Artist's Ideal of Lincoln / George H. Honig
29. What Indiana Did for Lincoln / Bess V. Ehrmann
30. Correspondence Between Lincoln Historians and This Society / John H. Iglehart
Lincoln and Southwestern Indiana Chronology
Index
