Elementary abraham lincoln biography

Biography

ABRAHAM LINCON

Abraham Lincoln was born Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. .His father was a carpenter and farmer.
When Abraham was 7, the family moved to southern Indiana.

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Abraham had gone to school briefly in Kentucky and did so again in Indiana. He attended school with his older sister, Sarah (his younger brother, Thomas, had died in infancy). In 1818 Nancy Hanks Lincoln died from milk sickness, His father remarried the next year, and Abraham loved his new stepmother.

She brought 3 children of her own into the household As Abraham grew up, he loved reading and preferred learning to work in the fields.

Elementary abraham lincoln biography

This led to a difficult relationship with his father who was just the opposite. Abraham was constantly borrowing books from the neighbours In 1828 Abraham's sister, who had married Aaron Grigsby in 1826, died during childbirth.

Later in the year, Abraham made a flatboat trip to New Orleans. In 1830 the Lincolns moved west to Illino