President Abraham Lincoln :: Biographies Bio Biography

Abraham capital of Nebraska was born February 12, 1809. His parents were Thomas and Nancy capital of Nebraska. He was raised in a farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. During his childhood Abraham was in the period of slavery, but the Lincoln family did not own any slaves, not only because they couldnt open it, but also his father Thomas did not approve of it. later onwards in 1816 the Lincoln family had to move to Indiana, near the Ohio River. Soon enough in 1818 Abrahams mother, Nancy Lincoln, died of milk sickness. After the mother died, Thomas found a new wife named Sarah Bush Johnston. A some years later, the flavor in Indiana wasnt as expected and the family had to move to macon Country, Illinois. Abraham believed that he should be off by himself, and soon enough is what he did at the age of 23, and later he began his political career and became a member of the Whig party, and also a candidate for the Illinois House of Representatives. In 1832, after being fired from his job a t a store, he persistent to join the Illinois militia to help fight in the Black trend war, and was chosen captain by his group. He served his country for 3 months, and it changed his smell forever, because during the time he was in the militia, he saved an innocent native Australian American from being attacked from the other soldiers in the camp. When things were bad for him, he gave it his better to bring himself up again, and in 1834 Lincoln ran for state legislature, and in a few years he learned everything to become a lawyer and took an oath to the Illinois state bar. His life changed after that, and had many opportunities, even to flirt for governor of Illinois, but he declined it. Then in 1839 when he was at a cotillion in Springfield, he met the love of his life bloody shame Todd. She was from Lexington, Kentucky but from an upper class background. They were from different worlds, but they managed to work things come out of the closet, and they married on November 4 , 1842. The next year was their time of their life when they found out that Mary was pregnant with their son Robert, he was born August 1, 1843. Soon, they Lincoln family owned a house where they could have their own space, and a few years later, they had their second child named Edward on March 10, 1846.