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This is a quiz to find out who I am talking about. He is an American male born in the19th century.
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Daniel Boone brought my man's grandparents to Kentucky. Can you guess or work out using Google who my mystery man is? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boone_by_Lewis.jpg
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My mystery man is born. US bans the import of slaves. Author unknown
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My mystery man starts to work for himself as a boatbuilder, carpenter, sawmilling, blacksmithing, river-pilot, logger. Sawmill
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My mystery man forms a partrnership in law with S T Logan.
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He marries Mary ????
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W H Herndon becomes his law partner for life.
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"I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everbody else."
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This event plays a significat part in my man's life. The battle of Gettysburg Hand-colored lithograph by Currier and Ives.
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Slavery was abolished, the civil war ended and his wife writes to Queen Victoria after her husband had died a violent death: "I have received the letter which Your Majesty has had the kindness to write. I am deeply grateful for this expression of tender sympathy, coming as they do, from a heart which from its own sorrow, can appreciate the intense grief I now endure."
Who is he? So can you now guess who this mystery man is? Mathew Brady (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MaryToddLincol
