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But the qualities that would make Abraham Lincoln famous—his intellectual power, ambition, idealism, eloquence, spirituality, integrity, political wisdom, judgment, leadership—were lacking in Thomas. Henry C. Whitney, to whom Lincoln described his childhood, said that from Thomas Lincoln his son “inherited only ‘infancy, ignorance and indigence.’ ” Few of Thomas’s neighbors could remember anything special about him other than that he was “a plain unpretending plodding man,” “a good average man,” who “attended to his work” and was “among the very commonest of the plain pioneers,” “honest and harmless,” “illiterate, yet always truthful, conscientious and religious,” and “peaceable good.” Thomas evidently could read a little but was unable to write anything other than his signature.
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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