Abe Lincoln
The Life and Hardships of Abraham Lincoln
In the year 1809, the future sixteenth president and the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks was born, and was named Abraham after his grandfather. He was born into a one room log cabin in Kentucky made form logs and clay, and it sat right on the hard cold earth, with just a fireplace on one wall to keep them warm. In 1811, at the age of two, Abraham and his family moved to Knob Creek, where he first learned to plant, husk corn, hoe, chop wood, and build hearth fires.
Abe's first schooling came at the age of six, when his older sister, Sarah, brought him to the schoolhouse two miles down the road, where he learned to read, write and do ...
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their destination. In the autumn of 1818 Abe's mother Nancy died from "milk sickness", and so young Sarah, who was only eleven, took over the chores of from her mother. A year later though, Thomas Lincoln found a second wife, in order to help around the house, named Sarah Bush Johnston, whom had three kids of her own. Abe and Sarah quickly grew to love their new stepmother, who kept an immaculate house and even pushed Abe to do his studies.
At age eleven, Abe was to required to go to school regularly when there was a teacher, and whenever this was, Abe got to walk a beautiful four miles each way which he did not mind. Though his lifetime of schooling never amounted to more than a year, he was always reading, which kept him up at the pace of the other kids who went to school all the time. Many called him lazy because of his constant reading and thinking, which just made Abe grin. By the time he was fifteen, he was a tall and strong boy who worked as a hired hand for other ...
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leader of his rifle company, and this honor pleased him though he knew very little about military life. Just before the war, Abe had decided to run for the Illinois Legislature, which he continued to strive for after the war had ended. He did not win and in the process lost his store in New Salem, leaving him out of work. After a year of toilsome work, Abe was elected Illinois General Assembly in 1834, and was reelected in 1836, 1838, and 1840. He soon became popular in the legislature, and by the time he was starting his second term, Abe was a skilled politician as well as a Whig party leader in Illinois. Encouraged by his friends in the legislature, Abe became determined to be a ...
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