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 in backwoods...frontier. His father, Thomas Lincoln, was a migratory carpenter...stepmother to the boy. Abraham had almost no formal schooling...gathered for the Black Hawk War (1832), but the company...Lincoln was elected to the state legislature, in which...was fired upon, and the Civil War began. Although various...the night of Apr. 14, 1865, when attending a performance...