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1869

ANDREW JOHNSON.

The same morn that Pres-i-dent Lin-coln died, An-drew John-son took the chair.

John-son was born in a small log house, in Ra-leigh, N. C., 1808. His folks were poor. The fa-ther died when the boy was four years old. At the age of ten, An-drew was put out for a term of years to work for a man who made clothes, and to learn that trade. He found a small book in the shop with A B C's in it. The men at work there told him what they were and taught him to read.

In 1824, when e-lev-en years old, John-son went to the next state, South Car-o-li-na, where he found work at his trade. Two years thence he was once more in Ra-leigh. From there, with his kin, he set out, in a cart with two