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Francis Fisher Browne was born on December 1, 1843 at South Halifax, Vermont, the son of William Goldsmith Browne and Eunice (Fisher) Browne.
(The present revision of "The Every-day Life of Abraham Li...)
The present revision of "The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln" was the last literary labor of its author. He had long wished to undertake the work, and had talked much of it for several years past. But favorable arrangements for the book's republication were not completed until about a year ago. Then, though by no means recovered from an attack of pneumonia late in the previous winter, he took up the task of revision and recasting with something of his old-time energy. It was a far heavier task than he had anticipated, but he gave it practically his undivided attention until within three or four weeks of his death. Only when the last pages of manuscript had been despatched to the printer did he yield to the overwhelming physical suffering that had been upon him for a long time past. His death occurred at Santa Barbara, California, on May 11. The original edition of this book was published about twenty years after Lincoln's death at the close of the Civil War. At that time many of the men who had taken a prominent part in the affairs, military and civil, of that heroic period, many who had known Lincoln and had come in personal contact with him during the war or in his earlier years, were still living. It was a vivid conception of the value of the personal recollections of these men, gathered and recorded before it was too late, that led to the preparation of this book. It was intended to be, and in effect it was, largely an anecdotal Life of Lincoln built of material gathered from men still living who had known him personally. The task was begun none too soon. Of the hundreds who responded to the requests for contributions of their memories of Lincoln there were few whose lives extended very far into the second quarter-century after his death, and few indeed survive after the lapse of nearly fifty years,—though in several instances the author has been so fortunate as to get valuable material directly from persons still living (1913). Of the more than five hundred friends and contemporaries of Lincoln to whom credit for material is given in the original edition, scarcely a dozen are living at the date of this second edition. Therefore, the value of these reminiscences increases with time. They were gathered largely at first hand. They can never be replaced, nor can they ever be very much extended. This book brings Lincoln the man, not Lincoln the tradition, very near to us. Browning asked, "And did you once see Shelley plain? And did he stop and speak to you?" The men whose narratives make up a large part of this book all saw Lincoln plain, and here tell us what he spoke to them, and how he looked and seemed while saying it. The great events of Lincoln's life, and impressions of his character, are given in the actual words of those who knew him—his friends, neighbors, and daily associates—rather than condensed and remolded into other form. While these utterances are in some cases rude and unstudied, they have often a power of delineation and a graphic force that more than compensate for any lack of literary quality.
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The year 1809--that year which gave William E. Gladstone to England--was in our country the birth-year of him who wears the most distinguished name that has yet been written on the pages of American history--ABRAHAM LINCOLN. In a rude cabin in a clearing, in the wilds of that section which was once the hunting-ground and later the battle-field of the Cherokees and other war-like tribes, and which the Indians themselves had named Kentucky because it was "dark and bloody ground," the great War President of the United States, after whose name History has written the word "Emancipator," first saw the light. Born and nurtured in penury, inured to hardship, coarse food, and scanty clothing,--the story of his youth is full of pathos. Small wonder that when asked in his later years to tell something of his early life, he replied by quoting a line from Gray's Elegy: "The short and simple annals of the poor." Lincoln's ancestry has been traced with tolerable certainty through five generations to Samuel Lincoln of Norfolk County, England. Not many years after the landing of the "Mayflower" at Plymouth--perhaps in the year 1638--Samuel Lincoln's son Mordecai had emigrated to Hingham, Massachusetts. Perhaps because he was a Quaker, a then persecuted sect, he did not remain long at Hingham, but came westward as far as Berks County, Pennsylvania. His son, John Lincoln, went southward from Pennsylvania and settled in Rockingham County, Virginia. Later, in 1782, while the last events of the American Revolution were in progress, Abraham Lincoln, son of John and grandfather of President Lincoln, moved into Kentucky and took up a tract of government land in Mercer County. In the Field Book of Daniel Boone, the Kentucky pioneer, (now in possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society), appears the following note of purchase:
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(Francis Fisher Browne was an American editor and critic. ...)
Francis Fisher Browne was an American editor and critic. Browne’s most famous work was a detailed biography on Abraham Lincoln called The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) is 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 crowning achievement, becoming the first president assassinated when he was shot at Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. In the generation after the Civil War, Lincoln became an American deity and one of the most written about men in history. With such a sterling reputation, even historians hesitate to write a critical word; in Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin casts Lincoln as an almost superhuman puppet master in control of his Cabinet’s political machinations and the war’s direction, juggling the balancing act flawlessly. As a result, Lincoln the man is far less known than Lincoln the myth.
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(History by the people who lived it. The original edition ...)
History by the people who lived it. The original edition of this book was published about 20 years after Lincoln's death at the close of the Civil War. At that time many of the men who had taken a prominent part in the affairs, military and civil, of that heroic period, many who had known Lincoln and had come in personal contact with him during the war or in his earlier years, were still living. It was a vivid conception of the value of the personal recollections of these men, gathered and recorded before it was too late, that led to the preparation of this book. It was intended to be, and in effect it was, largely an anecdotal Life of Lincoln built of material gathered from men still living who had known him personally. The task was begun none too soon. Of the hundreds who responded to the requests for contributions of their memories of Lincoln there were few whose lives extended very far into the second quarter-century after his death, and few indeed survive after the lapse of nearly fifty years,-though in several instances the author has been so fortunate as to get valuable material directly from persons still living (1913). Of the more than five hundred friends and contemporaries of Lincoln to whom credit for material is given in the original edition, scarcely a dozen are living at the date of this second edition. Therefore, the value of these reminiscences increases with time. They were gathered largely at first hand. They can never be replaced, nor can they ever be very much extended. This book brings Lincoln the man, not Lincoln the tradition, very near to us. Browning asked, "And did you once see Shelley plain? And did he stop and speak to you?" The men whose narratives make up a large part of this book all saw Lincoln plain, and here tell us what he spoke to them, and how he looked and seemed while saying it. The great events of Lincoln's life, and impressions of his character, are given in the actual words of those who knew him-his friends, neighbors, and daily associates-rather than condensed and remolded into other form. While these utterances are in some cases rude and unstudied, they have often a power of delineation and a graphic force that more than compensate for any lack of literary quality. In a work prepared on such a plan as this, some repetitions are unavoidable; nor are they undesirable. An event or incident narrated by different observers is thereby brought out with greater fulness of detail; and phases of Lincoln's many-sided character are revealed more clearly by the varied impressions of numerous witnesses whose accounts thus correct or verify each other. Some inconsistencies and contradictions are inevitable,-but these relate usually to minor matters, seldom or never to the great essentials of Lincoln's life and personality. The author's desire is to present material from which the reader may form an opinion of Lincoln, rather than to present opinions and judgments of his own. Lincoln literature has increased amazingly in the past twenty-five years. Mention of the principal biographies in existence at the time of the original edition was included in the Preface. Since then there have appeared, among the more formal biographies, the comprehensive and authoritative work by Nicolay and Hay, the subsequent work by Miss Ida Tarbell, and that by Herndon and Weik, besides many more or less fragmentary publications. Some additions, but not many, have been made to the present edition from these sources. The recently-published Diary of Gideon Welles, one of the most valuable commentaries on the Civil War period now available, has provided some material of exceptional interest concerning Lincoln's relations with the members of his Cabinet. In re-writing the present work, it has been compressed into about two-thirds of its former compass, to render it more popular both in form and in price, and to give it in some places a greater measure of coherency and continuity as an outline narrative of the Civil War.
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(Abraham Lincoln : Biography, Quotes, Letters, Stories and...)
Abraham Lincoln : Biography, Quotes, Letters, Stories and Facts A full "enciclopedia" about one of the greatest person who ever lived - Abraham Lincoln. Everyone needs to characterize the man who marked his name "Abraham Lincoln." In his lifetime and after, companion and enemy have taken it upon themselves to portray Lincoln as per their own particular mark or defamation. In this great book, Francis Fisher Browne, offers a new and convincing meaning of Lincoln as a man of integrity–what today's pundits would call "authenticity"–whose good compass holds the way to comprehension his life. Through careful exploration of the recently finished Lincoln Legal Papers, and in addition of as of late found letters and photos, Browne gives a representation of Lincoln's close to home, political, and moral development. Browne demonstrates to us Lincoln as a man who would leave a trail of contemplations afterward, scribbling thoughts on scraps of paper and recording them in his top cap or the base drawer of his work area; a nation legal advisor who made inquiries with a specific end goal to make sense he could call his own reasoning on an issue, as much as to contend the case; an involved president who, as fighters and mariners viewed in wonder, enlisted a vessel and requested an assault on Confederate shore batteries at the tip of the Virginia promontory; a man who battled with the impropriety of subjection and as president acted freely and secretly to criminal it perpetually; lastly, a president included in a religious odyssey who composed, for his own eyes just, a significant contemplation on "the will of God" in the Civil War that would turn into the premise of his finest location. Most edifying, the Abraham Lincoln who comes into concentrate in this stellar story is an individual of learned interest, agreeable with uncertainty, unafraid to "think once again and act once more." An otherworldly, clearing, energetically composed memoir that significantly grows our insight and understanding of its subject, A. Lincoln will captivate an entire new era of Americans. It is ready to reveal a significant insight into our most prominent president. A classic in its form for all ages and for the future children to come. HUMBLY ASKING, PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO RATE THIS AMERICAN CLASSIC Best Use of Your Money Ever ! Tags : Abraham Lincoln, A, Lincoln, Civil War, Lincoln, Slavery, History, Presidents, White House, Washington
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- With numerous illustrations. The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln is a fascinating biography of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fisher Browne, fist publish in 1886. From preface This book aims to give a view, clearer and more complete than has been given before, of the personality of Abraham Lincoln. A life so full of incident and a character so many-sided as his can be understood only with the lapse of time. A sense of the exhaustless interest of that life and character, and the inadequacy of the ordinarily constructed biography to portray his many-sidedness, suggested the preparation of a work upon the novel plan here represented. Begun several years ago, the undertaking proved of such magnitude that its completion has been delayed beyond the anticipated time. The extensive correspondence, the exploration of available sources of information in the books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers of a quarter of a century, and in the scraps and papers of historical collections, became an almost interminable task. The examination and sifting of this mass of material, its verification amidst often conflicting testimony, and its final molding into shape, involved time and labor that can be estimated only by those who have had similar experience. To the many who have kindly furnished original contributions, to others who have aided the work by valuable suggestions and information, to earlier biographies of Lincoln—those of Raymond, Holland, Barrett, Lamon, Carpenter, and (the best and latest of all) that of Hon. I.N. Arnold—hearty acknowledgment is made. Much that was offered could not be used. In the choice of material, from whatever source, the purpose has been to avoid mere opinions and eulogies of Lincoln and to give abundantly those actual experiences, incidents, anecdotes, and reminiscences which reveal the phases of his unique and striking personality. It scarcely need be pointed out that this work does not attempt to give a connected history of the Civil War, but only to sketch briefly those episodes with which Lincoln is personally identified and of which some knowledge is essential to an understanding of his acts and character. Others are brought into prominence only as they are associated with the chief actor in the great drama. Many of them are disappearing,—fading into the smoky and lurid background. But that colossal central figure, playing one of the grandest roles ever set upon the stage of human life, becomes more impressive as the scenes recede. F.F.B. CHICAGO, October, 1886.
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Francis Fisher Browne was born on December 1, 1843 at South Halifax, Vermont, the son of William Goldsmith Browne and Eunice (Fisher) Browne.
Early in his childhood the family moved to western Massachusetts where the boy went to school and learned the printing trade in his father's newspaper office at Chicopee.
In 1862 Francis Browne enlisted and served one year with the 46th Massachusetts Regiment. After leaving the army he went to Rochester, New York, to work in a law office, later deciding to enroll in the law department of the University of Michigan. He soon abandoned the law course and returned to Rochester to follow his printing trade.
Soon after his marriage to Susan Seaman Brooks he moved to Chicago with the definite intention of following literary pursuits. He found an opening with the Western Monthly, a newly established periodical, gradually gained control of the magazine, and at the end of two years, rechristened it the Lakeside Monthly.
He enlisted the best writers of the West and for the next six years slaved to produce a creditable and distinguished magazine. Just as the Monthly was practically self-sustaining Browne suffered a complete physical breakdown and retired for a few years, and the Monthly went out of existence.
While searching for health, Browne wrote special editorials for some of the leading Chicago newspapers and for a time acted as literary editor of the Alliance, then an influential weekly journal, but his mind was preoccupied with plans for a new periodical.
In 1880 under the imprint of Jansen, McClurg & Company, Browne's magazine appeared, named The Dial. It was a monthly review and index of current literature. His task was a difficult one, --especially in a city such as Chicago, which was concerned almost entirely with commercial interests, but he succeeded in establishing the foremost American journal of literary criticism of that time and the only one of its class which has survived.
Browne died aged 69 in Santa Barbara, California.
For several years Francis Browne contributed a large portion of the writing in the Dial, and still edited the magazine at the time of his death which occurred in Santa Barbara, California. It was courage and persistency which enabled him to succeed, for he battled against poverty, ill health, and many personal disasters. During the years that he edited the Dial he compiled and edited several anthologies among which are Golden Poems by British and American Authors (1881); The Golden Treasury of Poetry and Prose (1883); Bugle Echoes (1886); and seven volumes of Laurel Crowned Verse (1891 - 92). He was also the author of a small volume called Volunteer Grain (1895), a collection of poems none of which are distinguished. Probably his best work was The Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln, published in 1886. It deals with the human-interest side of Lincoln, the material for which was collected from some five hundred persons who were living at that time and had personally known him.
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He inherited the love of personal freedom and the literary tendency which dominated his life. Along with his literary interests he possessed a marked analytical insight which enabled him to realize the essential truth of a situation or problem, because of which he invariably found himself with the minority.
He was not blinded by the sophistries with which American newspapers sought to justify the war with Spain, and he protested from the first against the United States policy in the Philippines. Scarcely one of his judgments on the political events of his time has not since been verified.
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A student of Burns, Byron, Wordsworth, Arnold, and Tennyson, it is said that he was able to recite by heart almost all of Tennyson's poems and a great quantity of the work of the other poets. He has been likened to Arnold in his habits of thought.
In 1867 Browne married Susan Seaman Brooks. To this union nine children were born.
