Lincoln's income from his profession was now from $2,000 to $3,000 per annum.

His property consisted of his house and lot in Springfield, a lot in the town of Lincoln which had been given to him, and 160 acres of wild land in Iowa which he had received for his services in the Black Hawk War.

He owned a few law and miscellaneous books.

All his property may have been of the value of $10,000 or $12,000." Lincoln was at this time the father of two sons: Robert Todd, born on the 1st day of August, 1843; and Edward Baker, born on the 10th of March, 1846.

In a letter to his friend Speed, dated October 22 of the latter year, Lincoln writes: "We have another boy, born the 10th of March.