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Title: The real Lincoln : a portrait
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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unty, Indiana,Abraham Lincoln on several occasions came down from hishome in the village of Gentryville, distant about fifteenmiles, and talked to Judge Pitcher about books, askinghow to read them and how in other ways to obtain or atleast improve his education. I counseled with him, saidPitcher, and loaned him several books, some of them be-ing law books, which he took home with him to read. Iunderstood he wanted to become a lawyer and I tried toencourage him. The specific names or titles of the vol-umes which Judge Pitcher loaned young Lincoln theformer did not indicate, but we have the best of author-ity for believing that the first law book to which he hadaccess was the Revised Statutes of Indiana, a small volumeloaned to him by his boyhood friend, David Turnham.This statement is confirmed by Lincolns stepmother, whowas visited by Herndon at her home near Charleston,Illinois, in the summer of 1865, and later by a son of Turn-ham whom I met several times during my sojourn in south-
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JUDGE JOH>7 PITCHER STUDYING LAW IN NEW SALEM 131 ern Indiana. It is said — but it is only a tradition andnot verified — that while still a young man in Indiana,Lincoln would occasionally journey to Boonville, thecounty seat of Warrick County, also about fifteen milesfrom Gentryville, to attend sessions of the court, and thaton one occasion he was so profoundly impressed by theargument of John A. Brackenridge, who appeared for thedefense in a murder trial, that he sought the latter aftercourt adjourned and congratulated him on the brillianceand effectiveness of his speech. In that characteristic bit of autobiography whichLincoln wrote and turned over to Jesse W. Fell, of Bloom-ington, Illinois, in 1859, he relates that from 1832 to 1838,which he terms his legislative period, he studied law, whichwould indicate that, although he may have leaned towardthe law while still living in Indiana, from which State heemigrated in 1830, he did not decide upon it as a profession,at least di

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