Abraham Lincoln on Waterways (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln on Waterways Abraham Lincoln, a boy of sixteen living near Gentryville, Indiana, on the banks of the Ohio river, was employed for nine months in 1825 by James Taylor as a ferryman to operate a boat which crossed the Ohio river at the mouth of Anderson creek. Lincoln worked as a ferryman and as a boy-of-all-work and earned six dollars a month. The only modes of travel in those days were by wagon overland, or by boat on our lakes and rivers. The latter, where it could be followed, was the popular way. The Ohio river was thronged with boats. President Lincoln, one evening at the White House, told the following interesting story of his early experience while a ferryman on the river to Mr. Seward and a few friends. The president said: "Seward, you never heard, did you, how I earned my first dollar?" "No," rejoined Mr. Seward. "Well," continued Mr. Lincoln, "I belonged, you know, to what they called down south the ´scrubs.´ We had succeeded in raising, chiefly by my labor, sufficient produce, as I thought, to justify me in taking it down the river to sell. "After much persuasion I got the consent of mother to go. I constructed a little flatboat, large enough to take a barrel or two of things that we had gathered, with myself and little bundle, down to the southern market. A steamer was coming down the river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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