Lincoln scholar Frank J. Williams, a retired Rhode Island Supreme Court chief justice, discusses the Lincoln family’s move to Spencer County in southern Indiana in 1816, the year Indiana became a state. Williams also lectures about the Lincolns' movement from Kentucky to Indiana as part of the larger westward migration taking place in the United States at that time.
Topic: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Childhood and youth., R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture