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Birth/Early Life
n the late fall of 1808, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln settled on Sinking Spring Farm. Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born there in a one-room log cabin. Today this site bears the address of 2995 Lincoln Farm Road, Hodgenville, Kentucky. -
Family
Lincoln parents are Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. He had a sister named Shara and a brother named Tomas Jr. He had 4 sons named Robert Todd Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln and a wife named Mary Todd Lincoln. -
Education
Lincoln was self-educated. His formal schooling was intermittent, the aggregate of which may have amounted to less than twelve months. He never attended college, but Lincoln retained a lifelong interest in learning. It was while growing into manhood that Lincoln received his formal education an estimated total of 18 months a few days or weeks at a time. In March 1830, the family again migrated, this time to Macon County, Illinois. -
Employment
Among his many jobs were those of railsplitter, boatman, manual laborer, store clerk, soldier, store owner, election clerk, postmaster, surveyor, state legislator, lawyer, Congressman, and President of the United States. -
Politics
He was apart of the National Union Party. In March 1830 twenty-one-year-old Abraham joined his extended family in a move to Illinois. In addition to his law career, Lincoln continued his involvement in politics, serving in the United Stats House of Representatives from Illinois in 1846. He was elected president of the United States on November 6, 1860. -
Presidency
The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began on March 4, 1861, when he was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States, and ended upon his assassination and death on April 15, 1865, 42 days into his second term. Lincoln was the first member of the recently-established Republican Party elected to the presidency. -
Legacy
Lincoln Legacy. President Lincoln's achievements assured his continuing legacy. He saved the Union and freed the slaves. In his Gettysburg Address, he defined the Civil War as a re-dedication to the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence. -
Death
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. ... After a dramatic initial escape, Booth was killed at the climax of a 12-day manhunt.
