Extra Credit Questions

[Steve Whitlock]

No googling, please.

As a young man Thomas Lincoln learned a couple of skills in which he could earn money. One was carpentry. What was the other?

(Thomas Lincoln did a lot of farming during his life, but I am not including that here.)

I suppose cabinet-maker would be part of carpentry, which leaves farmer; although I recall his neighbor mentioning words to the effect that Thomas grew so little, and farmed by such primitive means, that he could scarcely be called a farmer.

That same neighbor, George Balch, wound up collecting money for a more fitting memorial to the father of President Lincoln, after seeing how poor Thomas Lincoln's burial was.

I believe I read about that in different sources, possibly Burlingame being one.