The 1841 Abraham Lincoln Wedding Gift That Mary Never Saw

[Anita]

I agree Roger.

This woodcut shows the Hill & McNamar Store and the Lincoln & Berry Store in New Salem. The two stores were competitors. In 1829 Samuel Hill and John McNamar built the first general store in New Salem. In 1832 Abraham Lincoln and William Berry bought a general store from the Herndon brothers and went into business as the Lincoln & Berry Store. In April 1833, Lincoln sold his share to Berry, who let the store “wink out.” Berry died in 1835, and Lincoln had to assume the entire store debt. Lincoln finished paying off what he called “the national debt” in 1848. https://lincolncollection.tumblr.com/pos...f-paul-von

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