Increasingly he recognized the importance of the West to the young American Nation and acquired interests there. Finally he was to share as a Member of the Continental Congress in the preliminaries of the Revolution. to start upon Its vast evolution the principles of unionism and nationality. Truly he was not flung haphazard into the still small arena of American history. Abraham Lincolns ancestry was also purely English and the immigrant of it came to New England even before Washingtons ancestor landed in Virginia. Lincolns forefathers went to Pennsylvania. thence to western Virginia. and finally into Kentucky. where Lincoln was born. He grew up in Indiana and made his home in Illinois.
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