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Title	E.L. Bangs to Professor Galbreath, July 31, 1923
Time Period	1860s
Collection	AV83 Abraham Lincoln Presidental Collection
Format	Manuscripts
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Date created	2011-10-05

Title	E.L. Bangs to Professor Galbreath, July 31, 1923 - page 1
Subject	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works.
Time Period	1860s
Description	Text reads: "Baltimore, Md. July 31st, 1923. Prof. C.B. Galbreath The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio. My Dear Sir:- Your letter of July 27th, received and read with much pleasure. Am glad that the little piece of fence rail plesed [sic] you. Regarding the location of Hardin Co., I regret that I can furnish very little in addtion to the facts as stated in the copy of Mrs. Harding's statement. From the location of Cairo, Ills. I would suppose that the Hardin Co. referred to is not very far from that town. and would likely be the Hardin Co. referred to. I agree with you in believeing that a lad of Seven years would not do much rail splitting, and for that reason would not think that hardin Co. Ky was meant. Young men of the age that Lincoln had reached when he did his railsplitting like to visit distant points as Lincoln did himself when he went to the slave market, and like he much have done, if any of the events which are referred to in "The Crisis", so that a visit to either Hardin Co. Ky or Hardin Co. Ills. after he had growp up was an event likely to occur. When I was 10 years of age, my father, on account of the great panic of 1873 moved from Wilmington Del. to Baltimore. From the the [sic} very first of our residence in Baltimore, it was my ambition to revisit my old home, but in spite of the fact that the distance is only 79 miles, I did not get the opportunity until 1879 when For [sic] a few hours I was able to look on the house where I was born, and since then I have taken my sons and wife there, and have in my album a photograph which I took somewhere about 1910 of the old small house. So Lincoln might have gone back to Hardin Co. Ky and while..." [continue to next page]
Collection	AV83 Abraham Lincoln Presidental Collection
Format	Picture
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	AV83_B01F01_008_001.tif
Image Height	6207
Image Width	4746
File Size	88376146 Bytes
Date created	2011-02-17

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