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allowed any President as much power as Lin- 

 coln wielded. Yet he never lost his sense of 

 proportion. Phillips Brooks said of him: 

 "There are men as good as he, but they do bad 

 things. There are men as intelligent as he, 

 but they do foolish things. In him goodness 

 and intelligence combined and made their best 

 result of wisdom." w.F.z. 



Consult Baldwin's "Abraham Lincoln," in Four 

 Great Americans; Morgan's Abraham Lincoln,, 

 the Boy and the Man; Creelman's Why We Love 

 Lincoln; Craven's Story of Lincoln, for Children; 

 Tarbell's Life of Lincoln. 



LINCOLN, ROBERT TODD (1843- ), the 

 oldest son of Abraham Lincoln, and himself a 

 noteworthy figure in American political and 

 business life. He was born in Springfield, 111., 

 where his father was then practicing law. Be- 

 ing ambitious to follow the same profession, he 

 entered Harvard Law School, after being gradu- 

 ated from Harvard University; but the War of 

 Secession broke out almost immediately, and 

 he at once volunteered. Under his father's 

 good friend, General Grant, the young man 

 served as captain until the war was over. He 

 then resumed his law studies, was admitted to 

 the bar in 1867 and practiced in Chicago until 

 1881. In that year he was called to Garfield's 

 Cabinet as Secretary of War, in which post he 

 continued under President Arthur; later he 

 served as minister to England by appointment 

 of President Harrison in 1889, returning home 

 four years later. At the close of the Harrison 

 administration in 1893 he withdrew from public 

 life and became counsel for the Pullman Com- 

 pany. Four years later he succeeded to the 

 presidency of that company, upon the death of 

 George M. Pullman. This position he resigned 

 in 1911, becoming chairman of the board of 

 directors. 



LINCOLN, ILL., an industrial city of Central 

 Illinois and the county seat of Logan County, 

 twenty-nine miles northeast of Springfield and 

 150 miles southwest of Chicago. It is on the 

 Chicago & Alton and the Illinois Central rail- 

 roads and on the Illinois Traction System. In 

 1910 the population was 10,892; in 1916 it was 

 11,838 (Federal estimate). Lincoln is the seat 

 of Lincoln College, which since 1901 has been 

 affiliated with James Millikin University (Pres- 

 byterian) at Decatur. The city has a Carnegie 

 Library, the state school and colony for feeble- 

 minded children, an Odd Fellows Orphans' 

 Home, Deaconess' Home and Hospital and 

 Saint Clara's Hospital. The industrial estab- 

 lishments of the city include coal mines, large 



greenhouses, flour mills, creameries and manu- 

 factories of electric automobile-signal horns, 

 shoes, corn-cutting machinery, mattresses, horse 

 collars, caskets and cigars. 



Abraham Lincoln, for whom the town was 

 named, helped to plat the settlement, which 

 was done in 1835. The place was incorporated 

 in 1854. The commission form of government 

 was adopted in 1915. One of the most inter- 

 esting features of the town is the old. court- 

 house in which Lincoln practiced law. 



LINCOLN, NEB., the capital and the second 

 largest city of the state, ranking next to 

 Omaha, and the county seat of Lancaster 

 County. It is fifty-five miles southwest of 

 Omaha, 200 miles northwest of Kansas City 

 and 500 miles east and north of Denver, and is 

 on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chi- 

 cago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Missouri Pa- 

 cific, the Chicago & North Western and the 

 Union Pacific railroads. Several interurban 

 lines extend to suburbs. The population, in- 

 cluding a considerable number of Scandinavi- 

 ans, Italians, Greeks and Poles, was 43,973 in 

 1910; it had increased to 46,515 in 1916 (Fed- 

 eral estimate). The area of the city is about 

 eight square miles. 



Lincoln is situated on rolling prairie land 

 which slopes gradually north and west, and is 

 drained by the Salt Creek, a tributary of the 

 Platte River. The surrounding country is agri- 

 cultural. Among the principal parks are Ante- 

 lope, covering 121 acres, and Lincoln, five acres. 

 A fine monument to Abraham Lincoln was 

 made for the city by the sculptor Daniel C. 

 French. Two m,iles southwtest is Epworth 

 League Park, where a Chautauqua is held an- 

 nually. Near the city are the state fair 

 grounds. 



Institutions. Lincoln is the seat of the 

 University of Nebraska (see NEBRASKA, UNI- 

 VERSITY OF) , which is located in the heart of the 

 city. Nebraska Wesleyan University and Con- 

 servatory of Music are at University Place, an 

 adjoining suburb; Union College (Seventh Day 

 Adventist) is at College View, Cotner Uni- 

 versity (Disciples of Christ) is at Bethany. 

 Lincoln is well supplied with libraries, the uni- 

 versity, the state, the state historical and two 

 city libraries. The state penitentiary and the 

 state hospital for the insane are located here, 

 and among a number of benevolent and char- 

 itable institutions are Saint Elizabeth's Hospi- 

 tal and the Home for the Friendless. 



Public Buildings. Prominent buildings in- 

 clude the state capitol, constructed at a cost of 







