Menachem herman biography of abraham lincoln

          On this day in history June 16, , Abraham Lincoln accepted the Illinois state Republican nomination for Senator, where he delivered his “.

          Sixteenth President of the United States; led through the American Civil war only to be assassinated just as the war was coming to an end.!

          Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln

          Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, , in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky.

          His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute forced the family to leave in , they relocated to Knob Creek farm, eight miles to the north. By , Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, had lost most of his land in Kentucky in legal disputes over land titles.

          On September 22, , President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation setting the date to free all the slaves in the rebel.

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        2. Sixteenth President of the United States; led through the American Civil war only to be assassinated just as the war was coming to an end.
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          5. In , Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, their nine-year-old daughter Sarah, and seven-year-old Abraham moved to what became Indiana, where they settled in Hurricane Township, Perry County, Indiana. (Their land became part of Spencer County, Indiana, when it was formed in )

          Lincoln spent his formative years, from the age of 7 to 21, on the family farm in Little Pigeon Creek Community of Spencer County, in Southwestern Indiana.

          As was common on the frontier, Lincoln received a meager formal education, the accumula