Essays Tagged: "milk sickness"
Abraham Lincoln
, his family moved to southern Indiana. He wentto school with his older sister who in 1919, died of milk sickness. Lincoln had served inthe Black Hawk war in his late teens, but found no interest so h ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians
Biography of Abraham Lincoln (with work cited)
ek in Spencer County, which was about sixteen miles from the Ohio River.In 1818 and epidemic of the milk sickness broke out. Drinking poisoned milk from cows that had eaten the wild snakeroot plant ca ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
cause of slavery issues and land disputes in Kentucky. (Abraham Lincoln) At ten, his mother died of milk sickness, a disease that was acquired by drinking the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous wh ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents