title: There I Grew Up: Remembering Abraham Lincoln's Indiana Youth
author:  William E. Bartelt 
description: William E. "Bill" Bartelt is a retired educator who, for more than fifteen summers, was employed as a ranger and historian at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial. He is a member of the Federal Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission's Advisory and Education Committees and serves as vice chair of the Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
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  # My Memories of Eighty Years
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chauncey M. Depew
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com
  
  * [FOREWORD](depew_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [I. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH](depew_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [II. IN PUBLIC LIFE](depew_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [III. ABRAHAM LINCOLN](depew_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [IV. GENERAL GRANT](depew_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [V. ROSCOE CONKLING](depew_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  * [VI. HORACE GREELEY](depew_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  * [VII. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES AND WILLIAM M. EVARTS](depew_split_9.html#1_0_9)
  
  
  * [VIII. GENERAL GARFIELD](depew_split_10.html#1_0_10)
  
  
  * [IX. CHESTER A. ARTHUR](depew_split_11.html#1_0_11)
  
  
  * [X. GROVER CLEVELAND](depew_split_12.html#1_0_12)
  
  
  * [XI. BENJAMIN HARRISON](depew_split_13.html#1_0_13)
  
  
  * [XII. JAMES G. BLAINE](depew_split_14.html#1_0_14)
  
  
  * [XIII. WILLIAM McKINLEY](depew_split_15.html#1_0_15)
  
  
  * [XlV. THEODORE ROOSEVELT](depew_split_16.