Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library

Lincoln's Birthday

Abraham Lincoln, seated, and son Tad, standing, looking at an album.The Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library will be closed Monday, February 13 in observance of Lincoln's Birthday.

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" ... we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.

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Seated statue of 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, in the Lincoln Memorial; Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky

Photo credit: "Lincoln with his son," Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-11897 DLC (b&w film copy neg.); Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., photo by marrngtn (Manuel) at flickr.com - some rights reserved.