Biography of Abraham Lincoln Essay -- American Presidents History Essa

Biography of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. His parents names were Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. They named him after his grandfather. Abrahams grandfather had been killed by Indians long before Abraham had been born. Both of his parents were born in Virginia. Abraham had an aged sister and a younger brother. His younger brother was named Thomas but he died in infancy. Abrahams sisters name was Sarah. Abrahams father was a baffling worker, he was a carpenter and a farmer. Abrahams parents were members of a Baptist congregation which had separated from another church due to opposition to slavery. Abraham was seven when his parents decided to hit to Indiana. One of the reasons they wanted to move there was because of slavery. Abraham had attended school for a little while in Kentucky and did so again in Indiana. In 1818, Abrahams mother died from milk sickness. It was a sickness that you got fr om drinking the milk from cows which had eaten poisonous white snakeroot. He took her death hard. His father remarried in a year. Abraham care his new step mother. She brought along three of her own children to the household. Her name was Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. As Abraham grew up he realized that he preferred learning things than to be working in the fields. This caused a problem between Abraham and his father because his father was the complete opposite. Abraham would borrow ...