Beverley bryant biography of abraham lincoln
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The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Abraham Lincoln had to struggle to live and learn. Five months before receiving his party’s nomination for President, he sketched his life:
“I was born Feb.
12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks…. My father … removed from Kentucky to … Indiana, in my eighth year….
It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up….
Beverley bryant biography of abraham lincoln
Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher … but that was all.”
Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois.
He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and a