Abraham Lincoln, Volume I

In 1784, a boy named Thomas Lincoln ran for a gun; returning, he saw an Indian seizing his little brother. His shot saved the child—and became part of Abraham Lincoln’s family history.

In this 1893 biography, John T. Morse Jr. begins not with the president, but with the unsettled frontier and a lineage that moved from Massachusetts through Pennsylvania and Virginia to Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln himself knew little of his forebears and seemed content to leave their obscurity undisturbed; later genealogists, family recollections, and rumor offered conflicting accounts of his origins. Morse follows those traces with a questioning eye, weighing the hard circumstances behind the name against the stories others wished to tell. What can a family’s uncertain past reveal about the man who wanted to be judged for himself?

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