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Denton Offutt was a 19th-century American general store operator who hired future President Abraham Lincoln for his first job as an adult in New Salem Illinois.After Lincoln and his family had moved there from Indiana in 1830 he was hired by Offutt near Decatur Illinois to take a boatload of cargo downriver to New Orleans. With his stepbrother John D. Johnston and cousin John Hanks Lincoln departed on a three-month journey.