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When Berry died in 1835, Lincoln’s debts amounted to approximately $1,100. “That debt was the greatest obstacle I have ever met in life,” he told a friend. “I had no way of speculating, and could not earn money except by labor, and to earn by labor eleven hundred dollars, besides my living, seemed the work of a lifetime.” So Lincoln told his creditors that if they “would let me alone, I would give them all I could earn, over my living, as fast as I could earn it.” As late as 1860, Lincoln was still being dunned for payment of these New Salem debts. According to Herndon, “the debt galled him and hastened his wrinkles.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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