President Abraham Lincoln's 150-year-old Bible was gifted to his neighbor, Rev. Noyes W. Miner, by his widowed wife, ... (Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection) ...

The Bible is pretty much silent on what it was that Abraham did for the first 75 years. You would think there would be some clue as to what led to Abraham’s being chosen.

The Bible, given to a friend of Lincoln’s after his death, has remained out of sight, passed along from one generation to another, unknown to the vast array of scholars who have studied his life.