Sketch of the Life of Abraham Lincoln

Isaac Newton Arnold was a 19th century writer who penned this brief sketch of President Abraham Lincoln’s life in the aftermath of his assassination. Lincoln remains one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn’t live to witness his own accomplishment, becoming the first president assassinated when he was killed at Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth. 

This book was published in 1909, nearly 20 years after Arnold’s own death.