Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Vocations: Newspaper Owner; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Inasmuch as his biographers have pictured Abraham Lincoln at different times as a merchant, laborer, river man, surveyor, politician, and lawyer, it is not hard to imagine him as a good natured country newspaperman, walking the streets of Springfield, Illi nois. With a batch of copy paper in his hand and a stub of a pencil be hind one ear. As a matter of fact Lincoln was never actually a newspaper editor, but for a period of eighteen months from May 30, 1859, to December 6, 1860, he was the owner of a weekly German newspaper, the staats-anzei'ger. In Springfield. Few persons of Lincoln's day knew of the new enterprise and hardly anyone today ever pictured him in the role of newspaper proprietor. His purchase of the weekly came about in this manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.