Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin in LaRue County, Kentucky in a town now known as Hodgenville. Lincoln was named after his dead grandfather, who died in 1786 when he was ambushed and shot by an Indian while clearing a field. This article covers the first 40 years of Lincoln's life. He lived in Kentucky, until a land dispute forced his father to move to Indiana, when Lincoln was a boy. As was common on the frontier, Lincoln received little formal education.

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  • Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin in LaRue County, Kentucky in a town now known as Hodgenville. Lincoln was named after his dead grandfather, who died in 1786 when he was ambushed and shot by an Indian while clearing a field. This article covers the first 40 years of Lincoln's life. He lived in Kentucky, until a land dispute forced his father to move to Indiana, when Lincoln was a boy. As was common on the frontier, Lincoln received little formal education. In his young adulthood, he moved with his family to Illinois, where he worked as a boatman, store clerk, surveyor, militia soldier, and ultimately a lawyer. He was elected to the Illinois Legislature, and to the United States Congress from Illinois. In 1842, he married Mary Todd; they had four sons.
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  • Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin in LaRue County, Kentucky in a town now known as Hodgenville. Lincoln was named after his dead grandfather, who died in 1786 when he was ambushed and shot by an Indian while clearing a field. This article covers the first 40 years of Lincoln's life. He lived in Kentucky, until a land dispute forced his father to move to Indiana, when Lincoln was a boy. As was common on the frontier, Lincoln received little formal education.
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  • Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln
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