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The Life of The 16th President
President Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. ...
On February 12, 1809, the son of Thomas and Nancy Honks Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Harden County, Kentucky (Dougherty, James). They named him Abraham after his grandfather. Having no education, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father worked as a farmer, as his family made repeated new starts in the west. When little Abraham was eight years old, his family moved from Kentucky to Indiana, where he grew up in a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. ... Thomas, author, describes Abraham’s childhood was spent in a poor life, as opportunities for education and cultural activities on the frontier wes poor. ... Only one year after Nancy’s death, Abraham’s father, Thomas, married a woman named Sarah bush Johnston, a mother of three children, who became Abraham’s stepmother (Dougherty, James). Sarah made sure that the by Abraham received at least some schooling to “read and write.
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