Although the story may be apocryphal, it is in the literature. As a young man Abraham Lincoln went to Princeton, Indiana, to have some wool carded. While there he saw a girl and related:
"I passed on the street a very beautiful girl, the most bewildering creature it seems to me I had ever seen. My heart was in a flutter. The truth is I was so thoroughly captivated by the vision of maidenly beauty that I wanted to stop in Princeton forever."
The girl then allegedly bowed to him on the street. As it turns out Lincoln had just seen the "village belle" of Princeton.