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By Duane Hall, July 31, 2016
Lincoln's Mentor Marker
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1 ► Kentucky, Green County, Summersville — 719 — Lincoln's Mentor —  |
| Three miles west, birthplace of Mentor Graham, 1800-86, “The Man Who Taught Lincoln”. Sixty years a teacher. Green County 1818-26. After Illinois voted down slavery, moved to New Salem, 1826. There, from 1831-37, as tutor and friend, he . . . — — Map (db m124186) HM | |||
| 2 ► Illinois, Menard County, Tallula — Mentor Graham — 1800 - 1886 — Teacher of Abraham Lincoln — |
| "I think I may say that he was my scholar and I was his teacher." At New Salem, Lincoln read Graham's books and in 1833 studied grammar and surveying. Teacher in Kentucky and Illinois more than fifty years, Graham died in South Dakota. In 1933 his . . . — — Map (db m124185) HM | |||