Lincoln, Abraham
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM ling k n, 1809 65, 16th President of the United States (1861 65). Early Life Born on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin...father, Thomas Lincoln, was a migratory...Ind. Thomas Lincoln soon afterward married...stepmother to the boy. Abraham had almost no formal...Orleans, the young Lincoln settled in 1831...was elected to the state legislature, in...his interest in politics and entered on the...night of Apr. 14, 1865, when attending...