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Abraham Lincoln Posters and Prints, pg 2 of 6
for the social studies and language arts classrooms, home schoolers.
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social studies > famous men > Abraham Lincoln 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Lincoln Quotes | Lincoln Autobiographies < Lincoln Books & Links
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Abraham Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln (1778-1851), was married to his mother Nancy Hanks (1784-1818) on June 12, 1806, in a cabin near Springfield, Kentucky (the cabin was later moved from its original site to Harrodsburg, KY). Both Abraham's parents were uneducated.
Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the 348-acre Sinking Spring Farm, in southeast Hardin County (now part of LaRue County), Kentucky. He was the first president born west of the Appalachian Mountains. Abraham had an older sister, Sarah (1807-1828) and a younger brother, who died in infancy (1812).
Abraham's grandfather, Captain Abraham Lincoln (1744-1786), was a Revolutionary War militia captain and a pioneer settler in Kentucky who was killed in an Indian attack. Later the president would recall in a letter his father's storytelling abilities, “The story of his (captain) death by the Indians, and of Uncle Mordecai, then fourteen years old, killing one of the Indians, is the legend more strongly than all others imprinted on my mind and memory.”
In 1816 the Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln family moved to southern Indiana after debts and land dealing caused them to lose their farm. Two years later, when Abraham was nine years old, his mother died of “milk sickness”, a condition caused by consuming the milk and meat of cows that had eaten the poisonous white snakeroot.
Thomas Lincoln remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston (1788-1869), a widow with three children. She was affectionate and supportive of all the children; Abraham Lincoln called her “Mother” and maintained her home until his death.
In March of 1830 the extended Lincoln-Johnston family moved again, finally settling in Coles County, Illinois.
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Lincoln stated in his autobiography that he was raised for farmwork, which he continued to do until age 23. One of the tasks of farming for pioneering families was clearing the land of trees, which was no small task. In fact Tom Lincoln measured the circumference of an oak tree the family passed as they dragged their belonging through the forest to their claim in Indiana - at four feet above the ground it measured 24 feet around. Abe Lincoln's reputation as a hard worker with an ax was used in his presidental campaigns and he is forever linked with the image of “Railsplitter”. Cash money was hard to come by out on the frontier; reportedly Lincoln had his first job for cash by ferrying passengers from steamboats to shore in 1828.
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• Article in Atlantic Monthly- New Light on Lincoln Boyhood.
• Abraham Lincoln and Indiana
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Businessman Denton Offutt hired a young Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's stepbrother John Johnston and cousin John Hanks, to take a boatload of cargo downriver to New Orleans. Later Offutt hired Lincoln to tend his general store in New Salem, Illinois.
The Offutt store was failing, Lincoln was considering political office, and the 1832 Black Hawk War required each community to provide a militia unit. Lincoln left the store and joined the militia; he was elected captain, the group never saw action. Lincoln
When Lincoln returned to New Salem he resumed his campaign to be elected to the legislature, but lost; he next went into a merchant partnership with William F. Berry, which also failed. Lincoln then became the New Salem postmaster for three years, and a deputy county surveyor. For the six years, from 1831 to 1837, that Lincoln lived in New Salem, he also continued his study of law that began in Indiana, perhaps motivated by his father's land troubles?
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Ann Rutledge (1813-1835), the daughter of one of the founders of New Salem, died at the age of 22 from typhoid. After Lincoln's assassination, William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner and friend, revealed that a young Abraham Lincoln had been struck a hard blow by her death. Historians have since said the “romance” was not as seriousas Herndon's story suggested.
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Mary Todd Lincoln
b. 12-13-1818; Lexington, KY
d. 7-16-1882; Springfield, IL
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865, and a mother devoted to her family.
Mary Todd was also the daughter of a Kentucky slave owner, well educated, very attractive in appearance, and like Abraham she had lost her mother at an early age. Mary Todd was also popular and counted Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), a man her husband would debate, among her suitors.
The Lincoln's were married on November 4, 1842 and had four sons: Robert (1843-1926), Eddie (1846-1850, died age 4), Willie (1850-1862, died age 11, probably typhoid fever), and Thomas “Tad” (1853-1871, died age 18, probably tuberculosis).
Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who was Mary Todd Lincoln's seamstress and confidente, wrote about her time in the White House. Mrs. Lincoln was photographed by Mathew Brady wearing one of Keckley's creations.
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In the summer the Lincoln family lived at the Soldier's Home, a stone cottage belonging to the Government on the outskirts of Washington. Not only did the distance from the city allow for a cooler breeze, the distance let Lincoln enjoy a family life away from those who would intrude at the White House at all hours.
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