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  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin located in Hodgenville Kentucky on the twelfth of February in the year of 1809. His parents were Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Lincoln had one older sister (Sarah) who was born in 1807. Three years after Abraham was born, his mother gave birth to a baby boy they named Thomas. The family was faced with devastating turmoil when Thomas died while he was still an infant. When Abe was nine years old he was kicked in the head by a horse, which caused his family to believe him to be dead. He survived, but his mother died a few months later of milk sickness. Thomas, Abraham’s father, remarried one year later to a young woman named Sarah Bush Johnston. Sarah was a widow who had three children of her own. Abe became extremely fond of his step mother and developed a great deal of affection towards her. In the years 1820-1822 Lincoln briefly attends school. In 1824 Lincoln began to plow and plant for his neighbors. During the f all and winter seasons he would attend school. Lincoln constantly borrowed books and read during any opportunity possible. On January twentieth of the year 1828 Sarah, Abe’s sister, passes away during childbirth. Three months later Lincoln takes his first trip to New Orleans on a flatboat caring farm produce. During this trip Abe experiences a slave auction and is attacked by seven black men attempting to rob him. In March of 1830 Abraham and his family move to Illinois, a two hundred mile journey, and settle along the Sangamon River. Once again Abraham Lincoln’s father moves, but this time Abe ventures to New Salem, Illinois. He remained there working as a clerk in the village store. The owner of the store also allowed Lincoln to sleep in the back. While in New Salem, Lincoln also began to participate in a local debating society. Two years after his family had moved to Illinois Lincoln found himself as the candidate for the Illinois General Assembly. He enlists in the Black Hawk war one month later. He was elected Captain of his rifle company, but was forced to reenlist as a private after that company was disbanded. During his three months of service he never fought in a battle. On August sixth he lost the election for the Illinois General Assembly. Lincoln was hit with another blow when the store that he worked at went out of business. He and his partner, William Berry, deci... ...an Cousin†, John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln in the head shortly after 10:00p.m on April 14, 1865. At 7:22 the next morning the sixteenth president of the United States was pronounced dead. His assassin was shot and killed in a tobacco barn eleven days later, never being put on trial. On May fourth, 1865 Abraham Lincoln was laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery, located near Springfield, Illinois. Although Lincoln was not alive to see it, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 31, 1865 that abolished slavery. Bibliography http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/ http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/lincoln/ Dilorenzo, Thomas J. The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War. Prima Publishing; March 26, 2002. Miller, William Lee. Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography. Knopf publishing; January 15, 2002. Senzell, Sally Isaacs. America in the Time of Abraham Lincoln: The Story of Our Nation. Heineman Library; January 2001.