There honestly is an Abraham Lincoln Wawa connection and to find it, you have to learn out more about the Wood family, the folks that started Wawa, writes Dan Seitz for Mashed.

From the iron foundry that was started by David Wood in 1803, to the Wawa dairy farm opened in 1902, to the convenience store empire that exists today, the Wood family has been there, you might say, through the centuries.

And Abraham Lincoln once worked for them.

Before the Civil War and before he was president, Abraham Lincoln was a simple country lawyer looking for work.

At one point, he was hired by the Wood family in their iron foundry days to be a debt collector on their behalf.

It was common up until the federal bankruptcy law in 1867 for those that racked up debt just to skip town.

Lincoln was hired to either get the money owed to the family or get law enforcement after the person that owed the debt.

There are no records to show how successful Lincoln was in his job. He did have a debt problem of his own, declaring bankruptcy in 1833 due to a failed grocery store business.

Read more about the Wood family and other facts about Wawa in Mashed.