Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Real Greatness of Abraham Lincoln: Speech of Hampton L. Carson, Esq., Response to a Toast at the Annual Dinner of the Union League of Philadelphia, February 13, 1899
Lincoln could trace his forefathers back for six generations to respectable ancestry - Charles Lincoln, I think it was, who came from Norwich to Hingham, Mass, his descendants coming into Berks County, Pa., removing into Virginia; and then the grand father, who was a co pioneer with Daniel Boone, push ing into old Kentucky - but the sad fact must be told his father was a luckless rover, a miserable squatter, moving about from State to State in a vain search for the acquisition of property. He went from Kentucky to Indiana, and from Indiana to Illinois. His mother, - what matters it that she knew not whence she came - is it not immortality for her womanhood to have been the mother of Abraham Lincoln?
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