Henry Wilson Clendenin, born at Schellsburg, Pennsylvania, August 1, 1837; educated in private schools and by tutors. Married Mary E. Morey of Monmouth, Illinois, October 23, 1877; to them were born five children, four of whom survive: George M., manager _Illinois State Register_; Clarence R., Deputy Internal Revenue Collector, Springfield, Illinois; Harry F., proofreader, _Illinois State Register_, and Marie, Assistant Instructor Physical Education, State Normal University, Normal, Illinois. He was a private of Company I, Twentieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War. Began newspaper work on _Burlington_ (Iowa) _Hawkeye_. Afterwards telegraph editor _Peoria Transcript_, 1858; telegraph editor _Burlington Gazette_, 1863, and editor and proprietor, _Keokuk Daily Constitution_, 1876-1881; since that year was editor and president of the _Illinois State Register_. Postmaster, Springfield 1886-90. Member Illinois State Historical Society, The Jefferson Association, Grand Army of the Republic and Sons of the American Revolution. Director of Lincoln Library at Springfield, Illinois, for ten years. Member of the First Congregational Church of that city. This sonnet was written by Mr. Clendenin, in Philadelphia, February 22, 1861, after witnessing Lincoln hoist the flag over Independence Hall. LINCOLN CALLED TO THE PRESIDENCY Hark to the sound that speedeth o'er the land! Behold the sword in fratricidal hand! 'Tis duty calls thee, Lincoln, and thy trust Demands that all thy acts be wise and just. No idle task to thee has been assigned, But work that's worthy of a giant mind-- And on the issue hangs the nation's fame As a free people who deserve the name. So, walk thou in the way the fathers trod; Be true to freedom, country, and to God; Then truth will triumph, treason be undone, And thou be hailed the second Washington. The first, the Father of his country--thou, Its Saviour. Bind the laurel on thy brow. [Illustration: LINCOLN IN 1858 From a photograph by S. M. Fassett of Chicago]