{"id":128,"date":"2008-12-17T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2009-01-08T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:59:43","slug":"analyzing-the-evidence-answer-2-lincoln-letter-to-jesse-fell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/analyzing-the-evidence-answer-2-lincoln-letter-to-jesse-fell\/","title":{"rendered":"Answer 2: Lincoln Letter to Jesse Fell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Correct. Lincoln described Spencer County, Indiana, as \u201ca wild region with many bears and other wild animal still in the woods.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/2008\/12\/17\/analyzing-the-evidence-abraham-lincoln-letter-to-jesse-fell-question-3\/\">Next<\/a> &gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#transcript\"><strong>Read transcript<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-126\" title=\"fell_hint2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/files\/2009\/01\/fell_hint2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"728\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"transcript\"> <\/a><strong>2nd Paragraph of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s letter to Jesse Fell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, litterally without education&#8211; He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my eighth year&#8211; We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union&#8211;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods&#8211;<\/span> There I grew up&#8211; There were some schools, so called; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond the reading, writing, and Arithmetic &#8220;readin, writin, and cipherin&#8221; to the Rule of Three&#8211; If a straggler supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard&#8211; There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I came of age I did not know much&#8211; Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all&#8211; I have not been to school since&#8211; The little advance I now have upon this store of education, I have have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correct. Lincoln described Spencer County, Indiana, as \u201ca wild region with many bears and other wild animal still in the woods.\u201d Next &gt;&gt; Read transcript 2nd Paragraph of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s letter to Jesse Fell My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, litterally without education&#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-128","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Analyzing the Evidence ~ Answer 2: Lincoln Letter to Jesse Fell | Looking for Lincoln | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/analyzing-the-evidence-answer-2-lincoln-letter-to-jesse-fell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Analyzing the Evidence ~ Answer 2: Lincoln Letter to Jesse Fell | Looking for Lincoln | PBS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Correct. 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