The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln - A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal - Recollections By Those Who Knew Him
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fisher Browne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him Author: Francis Fisher Browne Release Date: November 10, 2004 [EBook #14004] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE OF LINCOLN *** Produced by Audrey Longhurst and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed. Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead; One whose meek flock the people joyed to be, Not lured by any cheat of birth, But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity! They knew that outward grace is dust; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust.

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Francis Fisher Browne
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal
Recollections By Those Who Knew Him

Author: Francis Fisher Browne
Release Date: November 10, 2004 [EBook #14004]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE OF LINCOLN ***
Produced by Audrey Longhurst and the PG Online Distributed
Proofreading Team.
"How beautiful to see
Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed.
Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;
One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,
Not lured by any cheat of birth,
But by his clear-grained human worth,
And brave old wisdom of sincerity!
They knew that outward grace is dust;
They could not choose but trust
In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill,
And supple-tempered will
That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust.
His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind,
Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars,
A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind;
Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined,
Fruitful and friendly for all human kind,
Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars.
"Great captains, with their guns and drums,
Disturb our judgment for the hour,
But at last silence comes;
These all are gone, and, standing like a tower,
Our children shall behold his fame,
The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man,Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame,
New birth of our new soil, the first American."
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
FROM AN UNPUBLISHED ORIGINAL DRAWING
BY JOHN NELSON MARBLE
THE EVERY-DAY LIFE OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE
BIOGRAPHY WITH PEN-PICTURES
AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
BY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM
BY FRANCIS FISHER BROWNE
Compiler of "Golden Poems," "Bugle Echoes, Pose ofthe Civil War," "Laurel-Crowned Verse," etc.
NEW AND THOROUGHLY REVISED EDITION, FROM NEW PLATES, WITH
AN ENTIRELY NEW PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN, FROM A
CHARCOAL STUDY BY J.K. MARBLE
CHICAGO
BROWNE & HOWELL COMPANY
1913
v FRANCIS FISHER BROWNE
1843-1913
The present revision of "The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln" was the last
literary labor of its author. He had long wished to undertake the work, and had
talked much of it for several years past. But favorable arrangements for the
book's republication were not completed until about a year ago. Then, though
by no means recovered from an attack of pneumonia late in the previous winter,
he took up the task of revision and recasting with something of his old-time
energy. It was a far heavier task than he had anticipated, but he gave it
practically his undivided attention until within three or four weeks of his death.
Only when the last pages of manuscript had been despatched to the printer did
he yield to the overwhelming physical suffering that had been upon him for a
long time past. His death occurred at Santa Barbara, California, on May 11.
Francis Fisher Browne was born at South Halifax, Vermont, on December 1,
1843. His parentage, on both sides, was of the purest New England stock.
Early in his childhood, the family moved to Western Massachusetts, where the
boy went to school and learned the printing trade in his father's newspaper
office at Chicopee. As a lad of eighteen, he left the high school in answer to the
government's call for volunteers, serving for a year with the 46th Massachusetts
Regiment in North Carolina and with the Army of the Potomac. When the
vi regiment was discharged, in 1863, he decided to take up the study of law.
Removing to Rochester, N.Y., he entered a law office in that city; and a year or
two later began a brief course in the law department of the University of
Michigan. He was unable to continue in college, however, and returned to
Rochester to follow his trade.
Immediately after his marriage, in 1867, he came to Chicago, with the definite
intention of engaging in literary work. Here he became associated with "The
Western Monthly," which, with the fuller establishment of his control, he
rechristened "The Lakeside Monthly." The best writers throughout the West
were gradually enlisted as contributors; and it was not long before the
magazine was generally recognized as the most creditable and promising
periodical west of the Atlantic seaboard. But along with this increasing prestige
came a series of extraneous setbacks and calamities, culminating in a
complete physical breakdown of its editor and owner, which made the
magazine's suspension imperative.FRANCIS F. BROWNE
The six years immediately following, from 1874 to 1880, were largely spent in a
search for health. During part of this time, however, Mr. Browne acted as literary
editor of "The Alliance," and as special editorial writer for some of the leading
Chicago newspapers. But his mind was preoccupied with plans for a new
periodical—this time a journal of literary criticism, modeled somewhat after
such English publications as "The Athenæum" and "The Academy." In the
furtherance of this bold conception he was able to interest the publishing firm of
Jansen, McClurg & Co.; and under their imprint, in May, 1880, appeared the
first issue of THE DIAL, "a monthly review and index of current literature." At
about the same time he became literary adviser to the publishing department of
the house, and for twelve years thereafter toiled unremittingly at his double
task-work. In 1892, negotiations were completed whereby he acquired Messrs.
vii McClurg & Co.'s interest in the periodical. It was enlarged in scope, and made a
semi-monthly; and from that time until his death it appeared uninterruptedly
under his guidance and his control.
Besides his writings in THE DIAL and other periodicals, Mr. Browne is the
author of a small volume of poems, "Volunteer Grain" (1895). He also compiled
and edited several anthologies,—"Bugle Echoes," a collection of Civil War
poems (1886); "Golden Poems by British and American Authors" (1881); "The
Golden Treasury of Poetry and Prose" (1883); and seven volumes of "Laurel-
Crowned Verse" (1891-2). He was one of the small group of men who, in 1874,
founded the Chicago Literary Club; and for a number of years past he has been
an honorary member of that organization, as well as of the Caxton Club(Chicago) and the Twilight Club (Pasadena, Cal.). During the summer of 1893
he served as Chairman of the Committee on the Congress of Authors of the
World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition.
THE PUBLISHERS
ix
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
The original edition of this book was published about twenty years after
Lincoln's death at the close of the Civil War. At that time many of the men who
had taken a prominent part in the affairs, military and civil, of that heroic period,
many who had known Lincoln and had come in personal contact with him
during the war or in his earlier years, were still living. It was a vivid conception
of the value of the personal recollections of these men, gathered and recorded
before it was too late, that led to the preparation of this book. It was intended to
be, and in effect it was, largely an anecdotal Life of Lincoln built of material
gathered from men still living who had known him personally. The task was
begun none too soon. Of the hundreds who responded to the requests for
contributions of their memories of Lincoln there were few whose lives extended
very far into the second quarter-century after his death, and few indeed survive
after the lapse of nearly fifty years,—though in several instances the author has
been so fortunate as to get valuable material directly from persons still living
(1913). Of the more than five hundred friends and contemporaries of Lincoln to
whom credit for material is given in the original edition, scarcely a dozen are
living at the date of this second edition. Therefore, the value of these
reminiscences increases with time. They were gathered largely at first hand.
They can never be replaced, nor can they ever be very much extended.
This book brings Lincoln the man, not Lincoln the tradition, very near to us.
x Browning asked, "And did you once see Shelley plain? And did he stop and
speak to you?" The men whose narratives make up a large part of this book all
saw Lincoln plain, and here tell us what he spoke to them, and how he looked
and seemed while saying it. The great events of Lincoln's life, and impressions
of his character, are given in the actual words of those who knew him—his
friends, neighbors, and daily associates—rather than condensed and remolded
into other form. While these utterances are in some cases rude and unstudied,
they have often a power of delineation and a graphic force that more than
compensat

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