Economic Research: Hurd Auto Mall

Wednesday 26 December 2012

Hurd Auto Mall

What can one say about what many average American citizens and American historians consider to be the finest president we have ever had? Abraham Lincoln has long been endeared in the hearts of all of humankind-including those southerners and operatives of the status quo antebellum, who at the time viewed him with such racist and virile characterizations, such as calling him the "Orangutan in the White House" and the "Abolition Emperor, King Linkum the First." He was known to others during his lifetime and since then by other names-Honest Abe, the Railsplitter, Uncommon friend of the Common Man, Old Abe, Father Abraham, or the Great Emancipator.(1)

Lincoln knew what it was like to grow up in poverty. Looking back on his childhood, Lincoln once remarked, "It can all be condensed into a single sentence-'The short and simple annals of the poor.'" He was born in the Kentucky backcountry of Hodgenville, Hardin (present-day Larue) County, in a simple log cabin with a dirt floor on February 12, 1809.(2) His father, Thomas, was a carpenter and an itinerate farmer.