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Abraham Lincoln's Teacher

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Azel Waters Dorsey, 1784-1858, a teacher of Abraham Lincoln, is buried on the King farm one mile south of Huntsville. He taught a "blab school" in Spencer County, Indiana, which the young Lincoln attended for six months in 1824. In 1828, Dorsey moved to Schuyler County, Illinois, where he taught school.
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