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Bowling Green (? – 1842)
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Bowling Green (? – 1842)
Historian Michael Burlingame wrote: “Lincoln found a surrogate father in Bowling Green, a rotund, easygoing, humorous, jovial ‘reading man’ from North Carolina known as a gifted spinner of…”
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