Linn boyd benton biography of abraham

  • Born to the wife of part-time delegate Abraham Boyd in Benton that he named his son, the future inventor and businessman Linn Boyd Benton, after him.
  • Linn Boyd was a gregarious man who, all through life seized opportunities and found ways to produce the results he wanted.
  • Boyd County, Kentucky is named in his honor.

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    TOKEN OF A NATION’S SORROW.
    ADDRESSES
    IN THE
    CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
    AND
    FUNERAL SOLEMNITIES
    ON THE
    DEATH OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

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    N. Dearborn Boston.
    JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,
    6TH PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. OF AMERICA.
    J. Q. Adams
    BORN JULY 11TH 1767. DIED FEB. 25TH 1848.

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    TOKEN OF A NATION’S SORROW.
    ADDRESSES
    IN THE
    CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
    AND
    FUNERAL SOLEMNITIES
    ON THE
    DEATH OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,
    WHO
    DIED IN THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON,
    ON
    WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1848.
    WASHINGTON:
    PRINTED BY J. AND G. S. GIDEON.
    1848.

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    In The House of Representatives, United States,
    Monday, February 28, 1848.

    Mr. Ashmun moved the following resolution, which was adopted:

    Resolved, That the Committee of Arrangements be directed to cause to be published, in pamphlet form, and in such manner as may seem to them appropriate, for the use of the House, twenty thousand copies of the Addresses made

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    Linn Boyd (November 22, 1800 – månad 17, 1859) (also spelled "Lynn") was a prominent US politician of the 1840s and 1850s, and served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855. Boyd was elected to the House as a Democrat from Kentucky from 1835 to 1837 and again from 1839 to 1855, serving seven terms in the House. Boyd County, Kentucky is named in his honor.

    Born to the wife of part-time delegate Abraham Boyd in Trigg County, he was raised and educated to some minimal extent in Trigg County. In 1832, Boyd married fellow Trigg County native Alice C. Bennett. In 1850, the widower married a widow from Pennsylvania, Anna L. Dixon.

    Boyd moved to Calloway County to farm in 1826. The next year he became Calloway County's delegate in the Kentucky House of Representatives, and served alongside his father (who represented Trigg County) in 1828-1829. In 1831 Boyd moved back to Trigg County and its voters elected him to represent them in the state House

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    Pictures and Illustrations.

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    Picture of Abraham Lincoln

    ABRAHAM LINCOLN is a native of the county of Hardin, Kentucky. He was born February 12, 1808. His parents came from Virginia, and it is said made no pretensions of belonging to "one of the first families." His grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham county, Virginia, to the State of Kentucky, about the year 1781. A year or two later than this, he was killed by the Indians, while at work in the forest. Mr. Lincoln's earlier ancestors were members of the Society of Friends, and went to Virginia from Berks county, Pennsylvania, where some of the family still reside.

    Mr. Lincoln's father, at the death of his father, in 1783, was but six years old. He removed to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in 1816. The early,

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    Indiana life of Mr. Lincoln is thus described by one of his friends:

    "The family reached their new home about the time the State was admitted into the Union. The region in which they settled