Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...special meeting of the Board of Overseers was held yesterday morning, at 50 State street, Boston, at eleven o'clock. Solomon Lincoln, president of the board, occupied the chair. It was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their votes electing Edward Cornelius Briggs, M. D., D. M. D., professor of materia medica and therapeutics, and appointing Morris Hickey Morgan, Ph. D., assistant professor of Latin for five years, from September 1, 1896, and Charles Wesley Birtwell, A. B., lecturer on scientific methods in philanthrophy...
McClure's Magazine for February takes its first grasp of the reader's attention with eight portraits of Lincoln (several of them very rare), some twenty other Lincoln pictures, and an account, abounding in vivid personal details, of Lincoln's misfortunes as a country merchant; of his entrance into the legislature, and the beginning of his acquaintance with Douglas; of his work as a village postmaster and a deputy county surveyor; of his study of Shakespeare and Burnes and a copy of Blackstone found by chance in a barrel of refuse; and of his romantic courtship of Ann Rutledge...
...Henry Watterson of Louisville, Ky., lectured at Dartmouth College Monday on "Life, Career and Death of Abraham Lincoln...
...suggestion of Commodore Porter, Lincoln determined to send an expedition against New Orleans. Besides the importance of the city itself it was doubly important to finish the work of opening up the Missippi. Thus alone could the West, the great store-house of the Rebellion be rendered useless...
Kentucky, after much indecision, finally declared in favor of the Union. Here Lincoln's tact was sharply contrasted with the overbearing action of the Southern leaders. The result was in fact chiefly due to the President's delicate handling of the matter...