"Made up of personal reminiscences of an early life in Menard County, which we gathered in a Salem life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg life from 1840 to 1850; including personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Cartright."

ch. 1. Reminiscences of Lincoln -- ch. 2. His first love ; His second love ; Lincoln's third love ; Lincoln's marriage -- ch. 3. From flat boat to White House ; Shirt sleeve court in the corn field ; Lincoln attends a circus ; President Lincoln's first dollar -- ch. 4. Lincoln at Salem ; Lincoln as a lawyer, on horseback ; Lincoln's appearance ; As a lawyer ; How he traded horses ; He preferred Grant's whisky ; Lincoln?s apt reply -- ch. 5. Ross and Lincoln ; Anecdotes of Lincoln ; Lincoln's early life -- ch. 6. Lincoln?s old home ; How Lincoln cured Charles Revis from swearing ; Lincoln as Postmaster at Salem ; Biographical note of Lincoln --

ch. 7. Lincoln's religious belief ; Abe Lincoln and Slicky Bill Green ; Trial of Duff Armstrong ; Duff Armstrong's statement -- ch. 8. The backwoods preacher ; Birth of Cartwright ; Judge of human nature ; Cartwright at a dance ; A fatal accident -- ch. 9. Anecdotes of Cartwright ; Cartwright?s appearance -- ch. 10. Riding his circuit ; Cartwright gets a little boozy ; Capacity for work -- ch. 11. The Baptists ; The Campbellites ; The Presbyterians ; Methodist Church ; Old fashioned camp-meeting ; Peter Cartwright?s tomb -- ch. 12. Menard County ; Stories of pioneer days ; The cold day in 1837 -- ch. 13. The Green family ; A pioneer gone ; The Watkins family --

ch. 14. Old Salem on the hill ; The west end of Salem ; Old Salem under the hill -- ch. 15. Old settler's day ; The founders of Petersburg ; A trip to Petersburg ; In memoriam -- ch. 16. History of Petersburg sixty years ago -- ch. 17. Early times in the capital of Menard ; Petersburg in the forties ; Old fashioned barbecues -- ch. 18. Recollections of presidential campaigns ; Fish at Salem dam ; My first pair of boots ; The old schoolhouse on the hill ; A deer hunt ; George Kirby of Sandridge -- ch. 19. Old time stories ; Judge Joseph H. Pillsbury -- ch. 20. Reminiscences of Menard County ; Early settlements ; Lincoln and the Bull -- ch. 21. Anecdotes of Menard -- ch. 22. Navigation of the Sangamon ; Warlike spirit of Menard County ; Some early settlers --

ch. 23. City of Petersburg ; Athens ; A letter from H.L. Ross -- ch. 24. History of Mason County -- ch. 25. Havana Township ; City of Havana -- ch. 26. Bath Township ; The county seat question -- ch. 27. Lynchburg Township -- ch. 28. Quiver Township -- ch. 29. Forest City Township -- ch. 30. Manito Township ; The Allwood tragedy ; Village of Manito -- ch. 31. Allen's Grove Township ; Village of San Jose -- ch. 32. Pennsylvania Township -- ch. 33. Sherman Township -- ch. 34. Mason City Township ; City public schools ; Religious societies -- ch. 35. Kilbourne Township ; Village of Killbourne -- ch. 36. Crane Creek Township ; Walker's Grove ; Religious services -- ch. 37. Salt Creek -- ch. 38. Henry Onstot ; The old home ; Sand burrs -- ch. 39. Pen picture of Col. John E. Neikirk ; Reverdy J. Onstot ; A hustler -- ch. 40. The early settlement of Havana ; An Indian battle at Havana -- ch. 41. The old Havana Hotel ; The early settlement of Mason County ; Spring Lake -- ch. 42. Havana from 1845 to 1860 ; The churches ; Robert McReynolds ; The Howell family ; Other old settlers -- ch. 43. Dr. Charles Newton ; The old and the new ; Riverside Park

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography

Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography

Plain talk from an old settler. Anecdotes about Lincoln from the days of his first love to the days on the circuit

Lincoln copy: Bound in cloth

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