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Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, was born on February 12, 809, near the present Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the second child and first son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, both born in Virginia of what Lincoln characterized as a “undistinguished” family. Like most Kentucky settlers of the of the time the Lincolns were poor, but Thomas Lincoln owned the farm on which the family lives, food was plentiful, and the cabin home was warm.
Lincoln’s parents were uneducated but they were determined that their children should have the opportunities that than had been denied. ...
When young Lincoln was seven the family moved from Kentucky to Spencer County in Southwestern Indiana. ... As a mature man Lincoln estimated that his total schooling amounted to not more than a year, yet in that time he learned to read, write, and do simple math.
In 1818, two years after the move to Indiana, Nancy Hanks Lincoln died. In the late fall of 1819 Thomas Lincoln made a trip to Kentucky and married a widow, Sarah Bush Johnston, with three children of her own.
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