“I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, Macon County. Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I remained a year as a sort of clerk in a store.”

— Abraham Lincoln

p, 125
1850s, Autobiographical Sketch Written for Jesse W. Fell (1859)

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