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Lincoln ? the First American President By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the first American President? Yes, he was! Now, that doesn't mean that an attempt is being made to upset commonly accepted history rior to deny George Wash ington, who was "First in War, First in Peace and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen," the further honor, usually accord ed him, of being the first chief executive of this republic. But the fact is that Lincoln, not Washington, was the "first Ameri can President" and for this reason: nru - .l:i j .? i A tt iicii a ciinu ia uurn, ita nationality is that of its par ents, regardless of its birth place. The parents of all the Presidents from Washington down to Buchanan were born before the Declaration of In dependence was signed and were therefore British sub jects, even though they were born in America, Lincoln's father and mother were the first parents of a President born after July 4, 1776. So he was the first chief execu tive, born in the United States of AMERICAN parents and therefore he was the first REAL American President. That characterization of Lincoln, however, is not based alone on a mere technicality in regard to the nationality of his parents. More impor tant is the fact that there was blended in him the strains of the two cultures which were such a vital force in the mak ing of America. One was from New England and the other from Virginia. ? ? ? It was just 300 years ago that the first of the Lincolns came to America. Samuel Lincoln was his name and he was born at Hingham in Norfolk, England, in 1619. In 1637 he emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony and lived there until his death in Hingham, Mass., in 1690. From this original immigrant seven Lincoln3 can be traced in direct line to the man who became President. A Migratory Family. As the years passed successive generations of the Lincolns felt that urge for a westward mi gration which was such a strik ing characteristic of the pioneer ?tock that conquered the wilder ness of North America and did ?o much to build in it a new nation. Not one of the seven died in the same town in which he was born and only one died in the same state. The westward taring of the Lincolns took them from Massachusetts to New Jer sey to Pennsylvania, to Virginia, to Kentucky, to Indiana. They came finally to Illinois from whence they sent one of their aons back East again, there to die and in Jhe dying, as well as in his living, to achieve im mortality. Here is the record of thoje ?even Lincolns: Samuel Lincoln was born in Hingham, England, in 1619 and died in Hingham, Mass., in 1690. His son Mordecai Lincoln, Sr., was born in Hingham, Mass., in 1657 and died in Scituate, Mass., in 1727. His son Mordecai Lincoln was born in Scituate, Mass., April 24, 1686, and after a residence in New Jersey died in Berks coun ty, Pa., in 1736. His son John Lincoln was born in Berks county, Pa., in 1716 and ABRAHAM LINCOLN died in Virginia in 1788. His son Capt. Abraham Lincoln was born in Virginia in 1744 and died in Kentucky in 1786. His son Thomas Lincoln was born in Virginia in 1778 and died in 11 Bnois in 1851. His son Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809 and died in Washington in 1865. So much, (or the moment, (or New England's contribution to the "Man ol the Ages." ? ? ? years after the first to Mass achusetts Bay colony there ar rived in Virginia a little group of 27 persons. They had been de ported from England as a punish ment that was being inflicted up on Cromwell's men who were captured by the Royalists, now back in power. Among them was a man named Thomas Hanks whose origin is unknown except that the Hankses were Malmes bury men. In the American col ony Thomas Hanks, through va rious purchases, became an im portant landowner in what Is now Gloucester county. In the Virginia land office at Richmond are preserved some of the patents granted to Hanks and they show that he held sev eral hundred acres of land ad joining the estate of a certain Col. Richard Lee, who had es tablished his home in Virginia 12 years before Hanks' arrival. Lee was a Royalist, one of the foremost in Virginia in support of Charles I. and one of the first to hail Charles II as the lawful sovereign of England. And now he found himself next-plantation neighbor to Thomas Hanks, the Rebel, who had been djeported from England because he had ridden with the Ironheads of Oliver Cromwell! Lincoln and Lee. How amicably the two men lived as neighbors we have no means of knowing. But we do know that the Lees and the Hankses in the years that fol lowed, intermarried. Two cen turies later two men, who claimed Col. Richard Lee as a common ancestor, found them selves arrayed against each oth er in a greater civil war than their forefathers had known in ? "? ? ?- ----- ???? - ??-" - Memorial which marks the birthplace of Nancy Hanks in Mineral county, W. Va. you used it to split rails with which to fence the land you had won from those same "red dev ils," it meant that this land was going to be yours to have and to hold and to hand down to your children. So they elected the "Rail - Splitter" President and who knows how much that elec tion was due to the fact that in 1860 America was still frontier minded? Nearly a hundred years before th^t time there had been another Abraham Lincoln who might have been an even greater fron tier hero ? if the "red devils" had spared his life. He was Capt. Abraham Lincoln, the grandfath er of the "Rail-Splitter," who sold his comfortable home in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in 1780. Then he started west with his wife and their five children ? Mordecai, aged eleven; Josich, nine; J'ary, si::; Thom as, four; and Nancy, a baby in the strong arms of her mother, Bathsheba Lincoln. Capt. Abraham Lincoln carried with him three treasury war rants each acknowledging receipt of 160 pounds in Virginia money and each calling for 400 acres of land to be located in any county in Virginia, Kentucky Thomas Hank's patent for 530 acres adjoining land of Colonel Lea in Virginia. England. They were President Abraham Lincoln of the United States of America and Gen. Rob ert E. Lee, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Con federate States of America. During those two centuries the Virginia Hankses, like the Mass achusetts Lincolns, had also be gun to move westward, although not traveling so far as the New Englanders. Some time after the Indian uprising of 1675 and Ba con's rebellion of 1676 Thomas Hanks disappeared from history but not until he had started the line which would come to its greatest glory in the little boy who was born in a Kentucky log cabin 128 years ago this month. That line was as follows: Thomas Hanks. His son was William Hanks. Born probably in Gloucester county, Virginia, about 1655. Died in Richmond county in 1704. His son was John Hanks. Born in North Farnham parish in Richmond county, date unknown, and died in 1740. His son was Joseph Hanks. Born in North Farnham parish, December 20, 1725. Died in Nelson county, Ken tucky in 1793. His daughter was Lucy Hanks. Born probably in 1766 in Richmond county, Vir ginia, and died in 1825(?). Her daughter was Nancy Hanks. Born in Mineral county, West Virginia in 1783. Died in Spencer county, Indiana, October 5, 1818. Her son was Abraham Lincoln. ? ? ? In 1860 the America which had once hailed those frontier he roes, "Old Hickory" Jackson and "Old Tippecanoe" Harrison was ready now to hail another fron tiersman ? "Old Abe" Lincoln. True, as an Indian fighter, his record in the Black Hawk war wasn't "much shakes" when compared to Jackson's conquest of the Creeks and Harrison'* vic tories over The Prophet and Tecumseh and their Shawnees. The "Rail-SpUtter" Elected. But the ax was as potent a symbol as the rifle. Of course, it wasn't as useful to defend your cabin against the onslaughts of the "red devils." But, without it, you couldn't have built your cab in in the first place. And when then being such a county. Thus it was that an Abraham Lincoln crossed over the mountains into what was then "the West" and became the first Frontiersman Lincoln. Late in the spring he entered 400 acres of land on Floyd's Fork in what later became Jefferson county, Kentucky, and a little later 800 acres below Green Riv er Licks in Lincoln county. Two years later an official survey was made and his patents were issued in due course of time. But he did not live long to enjoy his new domain. A Frontier Tragedy. One morning in May, 1788, while Capt. Abraham Lincoln was at work on his farm near Hughes Station on Floyd's Fork Mordecai, dropped the red raid er In his tracks. Despite this tragedy the widow, Bathsheba, continued to live on their new farm. That autumn when George Rogers ' Clark organized a company to fight the Indians, the settlers made contribution of arms and provisions to the extent of their ability. Highest in appraisal on the list was a fine rifle credited to "the widow Lincoln." One won ders if it was the rifle, notched with the knife of young Morde cai after he had avenged the death of the first Frontiersman, Abraham Lincoln. Later the Widow Lincoln moved with her brood to a home i on Beech Fork in that 'part of I Nelson county which later be came Washington county and ! there she lived until they were grown. One of them, young Tom Lincoln, was serving in the mili tia at the age of seventeen. In 1798 he went to work as a hired hand for an uncle who lived on : the Wautauga in Tennessee and, ' returning from there, he stopped in Cumberland county and bought some land. In 1802 he was made a constable in that county but he evidently didn't linger there long. He moved to Hardin county and in 1803 bought a farm on Mill Creek. Most of the young folks of Kentucky in those days married early. But Tom Lincoln didn't seem to be in any hurry to get himself a wife and settle down. That is, he didn't until his eyes finally rested one day on a twen ty-three-year-old girl who had come with her family from Hampshire county, Virginia, (later Mineral county. West Vir ginia) back in 1784 when she was only a year old. Nancy Hanks was her name and she was the natural daughter of Lucy Hanks. But folks also called her Nancy Sparrow because Lucy Hanks, changing from the ways of her wild girlhood, had become the faithful wife of Henry Sparrow. A Century-Old Mystery. Who Nancy Hanks' father was is still as much a mystery today as it was that day more than three-quarters of a century ago when Abraham Lincoln told one of his friends that his unknown grandfather was "a Virginia gen tleman" from whom he had in herited whatever fine qualities he had. It was probably a mys tery also when the Hankses came to Kentucky. But evidently Tom Lincoln wasn't troubled by the fact that there was a taint on the name of Nancy Hanks. In June, 1806, he went back to Beech Fork and there on June 12, in the big double log house of a family named Berry, Rev. Jes Survey of C?pt. Abraham Lincoln's 800-aere farm on Green River, Ky. a atkuukuig inaian snoi mm down. Sending his younger brother, Jo siah, to the station for help, sev enteen-year-old Mordecai sprang into the cabin and seized the long rifle which rested on two wooden pegs set in the logs over the fireplace. Then, as the hideously-painted red man dart ed from his ambush toward the place where little Tom Lincoln sat crying beside the body of his dead father, a shot from the long rifle, poked through the un chinked longs of the cabin by se Head married Thomas Lin coln and Nancy Hanks. He took his bride first to Elizabethtown and there their first child was born? a girl. A year before his marriage Tom Lincoln had bought a farm near Sinking Spring in Hardin county and there he took his family next. There on February 12, 1809, was born the boy who was given the name of his grandfather? a name which Americans have en shrined in the-r hearts. ?? WKU S*rvtc?. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQU1ST, Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. C Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for February 7 JESUS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD LESSON TEXT ? John 8:12. 31. 32; GOLDEN TEXT? I am the light o( the world: he that followeth me shall not walk Id darkness, but shall have the light of life. PRIMARY TOPIC? When Jesus Passed By. JUNIOR TOPIC? When Jesus Passed By. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC? How Jesus Ii the Light of the World. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC? Walking in the Light With Jesus. "The Light of the World Is Jesus!" Who does not remember with what delight we as children sang "Come to the light, 'tis shining for thee . . . The Light of the world is Jesus." How precious was the truth that thus flooded our souls. Jesus was the light, and just as the sunlight shed its glory on an awak ening world at dawn, so he shed abroad the light of God in the hearts of men. The writer of these les sons pens these words with the prayer that as this portion of God's Holy Word is studied and taught, the light may break forth on many a soul caught in the bewilderment of this dark world. Our study centers around three simple words fraught with beauty and rich in meaning. I. Light (John 8:12). The text says, "Then spake Jesus." When? Just after he had silenced the hypocritical accusers of a woman taken in sin, and had spoken the word of peace to her troubled soul. She was to "go and sin no more" because she had met him who is the "Light of the World." They that follow him "shall not walk in darkness"; they are the children of light, they have the very light of life. s UNDAY CHOOL ii. r reeaom ( vv. ai, szj. Free! Four letters, but what depth of meaning! Chains have fall en off, prison doors are open. The one who was bound is free. But here we are concerned with an even more important liberty, the freedom of the soul. Many there are who boast of their independence but who are naught but slaves. Jesus said, "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin" (John 8:34), not its master. How shall they be freed? Note three things in these verses. (1) A condition, "If ye continue in my word." This means not only a pro fession of faith but a daily appropri ation and realization of his truth in life. (2) A promise, "Ye shall know the truth." The philosophies of men profess to be a seeking after truth but how few there are who look to the one place where it can be found ? in Jesus Christ. (3) A result, "the truth shall make you free." Truth always sets free. Men are enslaved because, as in some for eign lands, they have not had the opportunity to learn the truth (we have failed to send it) or because they have rejected it. III. Vision (John 9:1-11). This is one of the most instructive passages in Scripture. A man born blind is seen by Jesus. His dis ciples note his intent and begin to theorize on a theological question. They had learned so little of the compassionate spirit of Jesus that they saw in this blighted life only an illustration of a theological the ory. May God help us that we may never be so blind. Jesus goes at once to work. He was in the world to do the works of God. He and the Father always work. Let us follow his blessed example. "The King's business re quires haste." Let us work "while it is day, the night cometh when no man can work." By a loving and gracious act, Jesus stirs in the heart of the mSm that faith which causes him to go, to wash, and, glory to God, he sees! Such a personal experience of the divine power of the Son of God leaves no doubt in the man's mind that the one who caused him to see "is a prophet." All of a man's doubts concerning the deity of Jesus Christ disappear when he becomes his Saviour. Read the remainder of the chap ter and note how this man's faith is victorious in the face of trials, per secution, and even of excommuni cation; for outside the temple he met Jesus and takes him as his Lord. As Dr. Scroggie puts it, "His excommunication was a promotion. He went from the synagogue to the Saviour." Thinking of Self Only Show me the man who would go to heaven alone, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there. ? Feltham. Laws to Fit the People Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.? Clarence Darrow. Divine Confidence Divine confidence can swim upon those seas which feeble reason can not fathom. ? W. Seeker. Be war* of Hypocrisy There is nothing against which | our Lord warns us so terribly as . hypocrisy. I "All's Fair?" By ISABEL WAITT ? McClure Newsoaoer Syndicate. WNU Servica. LETTY HOLMES, clad in her crisp, white uniform, spanked the naughty chimpanzee which had spilled his tea to the plaudits of the crowd around the cage marked Kindergarten. Not until the con clusion of her act, when she sat rocking Jocko, the baby ape, did she notice that a young man with bristling red hair was grinning at her. "A man with a face like that," she was thinking, noting the bulging forehead, the conspicuously small nose, the beady eyes and freckles, "ought to be on the inside looking out." Yet he appeared intelli gent and highly interested in her performance. How could she know Brandon Tyre's sensibilities were wounded because the most beauti ful girl he had ever seen was that minute rocking a chimpanzee? The Fleming Animal Farm was about to feed its roaring lions raw meat. The spectators moved away from Letty's kindergarten, all save a few. A middle aged Romeo smirked at the little nurse. "Say, Sister, is that the only thing you can get to rock?" he mocked. The girl ignored him, but her chair ceased its motion. "Suppose you remember," she heard the homely young man bridle, "Miss Holmes is a lady. Doing her job and doing it well." "Thanks, Mister," she smiled, wondering how he had found out her name. "Just another fresh guy. Rastus, give him the razz." Rastus, the largest of the three anthropoids, cavorted from a tra peze, emitting a flow of abusive sounding jargon. "Oh, I didn't mean any harm, Cutie," wheedled the Romeo. "How about a little spin after hours to cool off? My car will be waiting ? " "So will you. I don't make dates with visitors." "Perhaps I didn't make myself clear," Tyre walked up to the old flirt, his palms itching. "You don't mean to tell me she's dated up," exclaimed Romeo, backing away, "with a baboon like you!" For Ave continuous days Letty noticed the same cheerful, homely face at her every performance. She chatted with Tyre, now and then. "You must love animals. Or may be," she considered, "you work here." "I do love animals," he confessed. "I've been promised a job as soon as there's a vacancy, and I'm sort of learning what I can about the place." "Maybe you expect to get my act," Letty laughed at him, "and get me fired." "That's not a bad idea," he re turned seriously. "Only of course, I wouldn't do it unless you got a better offer." "Not likely," she said. "No oth er work for women except selling pop or taking tickets. Besides, I love my apes." Tyre looked at her adoringly. She loved her apes! She loved her apes! The words sang like music in his ears. "If she can do that, per haps ? in time ? I" ruteen chimpanzee acts later found Letty Holmes and Brandon Tyre slated for a movie. He was, she thought, the most interesting man she knew. My, what an edu cation! He had been everywhere; observed everything. While listen ing to him she forgot how homely he was. For three days now he had had a job, taking care of the ponies. The elephant man, who rode the kiddies around in a howdah on Jum bo's back, had been fired. Cruelty had been hinted. There had been several changes. "Gee, I may be the next to go," said Letty nervously. Tyre was passing the Kindergar ten with a bucket of bread and milk for a small Thibetian bear. "If you get fired I know another posi tion you can have," he said enig matically. On Saturday night she told him she was discharged from the Flem ing Animal Farm. She was highly indignant. "No one can say I've mistreated my pets," she cried. Then, "Tell me about that new job, Brandon." "It's ? it's ? it's taking care of me," he blurted out. "I ? I ? thought maybe you wouldn't mind having me around even if you are as beautiful as an angel and I uglier than Jocko. I love you so, Letty, and maybe you could learn to love me ? the way you did the other " "Don't say it!" the girl broke in. "You talk as if you were the Missing Link. Why, I think you've got the kindest face I know. I ? I might take you up on that offer, only I'd hate to think you asked me just because I was going to be down and out." Tyre took her in his arms. "Silly, I just had to be sure you Height care for me before I told you. We're going to manage this place togeth er. I had you fired, dear. Haven't you guessed I'm Angus Fleming'* grandson?" One Secret Kept Mrs. Smith ? My husband talks In his sleep. Doesn't yours? Mrs. Jones ? No, and it's so ex asperating. He only smiles 1 ? Stray Stories Magazine. - ? IJouseJiold $ ? Question? Pastry made with too much wa ter is tough and hard. Use only enough water to hold the ingredi ents together, mix quickly, roll and handle as little as possible. ? ? ? Grease your measuring cup be fore measuring syrup or molasses and the ingredients will not stick to the sides of the cup. ? ? ? Do not put too much wax on floors. A little wax and plenty of polishing makes a better-look ing floor. ? ? ? 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