On Lincoln’s Trail

Abraham’s first job was clerking in the general store and he even slept in a back room.   The cycle of rural life in a general store was slow giving Lincoln countless hours to read.  He thrived on books reading everything he could.  In time he discovered the law.  Since formal law schools on the frontier did not exist, a person became a lawyer after reading books, by being tutored under a practicing lawyer and by passing the law examination which he did on March 1, 1837.

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