ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the Great Story Telling President, whose Emancipation
Proclamation freed more than four million slaves, was a keen politician,
profound statesman, shrewd diplomatist, a thorough judge of men and
possessed of an intuitive knowledge of affairs. He was the first Chief
Executive to die at the hands of an assassin. Without school education
he rose to power by sheer merit and will-power. Born in a Kentucky
log cabin in 1809, his surroundings being squalid, his chances for
advancement were apparently hopeless. President Lincoln died April 15th,
1865, having been shot by J. Wilkes Booth the night before.