New Light On Lincoln's Boyhood

[Gene C]

An article from February 1920 Atlantic Monthly

I found this in the second paragraph interesting,
"The family of Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham Lincoln, while in their Indiana home, consisted of his two children, Abraham and Sarah, and a flock of orphaned or partly orphaned , children from four different families. Among these was a niece, Sophie Hanks, just a month younger than Abraham, who lived in the family of Thomas Lincoln until she was married."

This was new to me. It also seems the author did not think highly of Dennis Hanks.
After that first page, I found sections 3 and 4 of the article the most interesting.

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics...orglin.htm

Based on this article, seems many historians and writers have not been fair to Thomas Lincoln.