The Life of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 to Thomas and Nancy
Lincoln. He grew up in Hodgenville, Kentucky, and lived out in the
wilderness. He was brought up doing chores, and had a special talent
of using an axe at a young age. Upon attending an ABC school, Abraham
learned how to read, write, and solve arithmetic problems. He and his
family constantly had problems with the milk sick disease, which was
the cause of the death of Abraham’s mother. One of Abraham’s first
jobs as a young adult was to build a flatboat and take it down the
Mississippi River loaded with cargo. From then on, his occupations
seemed to be constantly changing. Some of the other jobs he became
involved in were a clerk in a general store in New Salem, served three
months as a private, opening a general store in New Salem once again
which failed after a couple months, state legislator of Illinois, and
a series of other more political jobs. Abraham Lincoln married twice;
first to Ann Rutledge and later as a result of her death e married
Mary Todd Lincoln. They had four children, and only one reached
adulthood. Lincoln’s first real successful career was as a frontier
lawyer, in which he earned about $1200 to $1500 a year.
Eventually seeking higher political positions, he became a powerful
young congressman. At this time in his life, her first began to have
the opportunity to voice his opinions about slavery. He was very much
against it, and supp...
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... into a more powerful position, presidents from
his term in office on were granted supremacy over both the Congress
and the courts. His perseverance as a person brought him to have such
an influential remembrance of him today, as he started out as a poor
boy brought up in the wilderness in a log cabin to obtaining the most
revered position of the country in the White House. Although he ended
a tragic death, America will never forget his efforts at making
America a better place, and will always look towards him as the father
of our country.
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