Marvin breckenridge patterson biography of abraham lincoln
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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 was rude and wild, and they endured, for some years, the hard experience of a frontier life, in which the struggle with nature for existence and security is to be maintained only by constant vigilance. Bears, wolves, and other wild animals, still infested the woods, and young Lincoln acquired more
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Breckinridge Estate gets HDC atttention
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Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson ’27 was born on October 2, 1905, to John Cabell Breckinridge, the grandson and namesake of Kentucky Senator John C. Breckinridge—Vice President in the Buchanan administration—and Isabella Goodrich Breckinridge, the daughter of American industrialist B. F. Goodrich. “My father,” she said later, “wished I would have been more conventional…. But my mother had a good deal of spirit.” Called “Mary Marvin” as a child, she went by “Mary” in school and “Bric” in college, before eventually choosing to be called “Marvin” in her adult life, so as not to be confused with her cousin Mary Breckinridge, the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service.
The Breckinridge family moved around a great deal when Marvin was young, and she attended twelve schools before graduating from Milton Academy in Milton, MA, and enrolling at Vassar in 1923. Reflecting on her years at Vassar in a 1939 alumnae questionnaire, she wrote, “I went to Vassar because my family wanted me to and had brought me up in that expectation all my life.”
She continued, “For the first time I heard other opinions than those expressed by my parents. I also got the ability to study for myself any subject in which I was interested, and learned how to go about such a study.” Marvin majored i