Jan 24, 2022 · Abraham Lincoln summed up his early years on the frontier in Kentucky and Indiana as "the short and simple annals of the poor." But the hardships he endured there as a youth weren’t unique.

Feb 2, 2025 · Abraham Lincoln led his country through a tumultuous period and played an instrumental role in abolishing slavery while preserving the Union as the 16th president of the United States.

Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president to have been awarded a patent for an invention. As a young man, Lincoln took a boatload of merchandise down the Mississippi River from New Salem to New Orleans. At one point the boat slid onto a dam and was set free only after heroic efforts.

Abraham Lincoln spent most of his childhood and youth—from ages 7 to 21—in southern Indiana. Lincoln earned his first dollar at age 18 by ferrying some men from the Indiana bank of the Ohio River to the middle of the stream so they could board a passing steamboat.

Like many Americans of his era, Abraham Lincoln's early life was characterized by steep obstacles and scant resources. Years later his life story still fascinates: the steady, slow rise from a setting of poverty, deprivation, and discouragement to a place of high national esteem.

Lincoln lived in New Salem for 6 years from 1831 to 1836. During these years he spent his time reading and learning about law, he became an entrepreneur, fought in the Black Hawk War, run for the Illinois state legislature, became postmaster of New Salem and deputy county surveyor. Abraham worked hard and earned a reputation for honesty.

1) To identify several events and people from Abraham Lincoln's youth that influenced the development of his character and personality. 2) To understand the daily life of a pioneer in the 1820s and identify specific skills that the Lincoln family needed to survive on the frontier.

As a young adult, Lincoln worked as a flatboat navigator, storekeeper, soldier, surveyor, and postmaster. At age 25 he was elected to the local government in Springfield, Illinois. Once...

Born in a Kentucky log cabin to a frontier family who later moved to Indiana and Illinois, young Abraham Lincoln grew up in abject poverty. He had about eighteen months of formal education because he worked to supplement his family’s income.

Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky on February 12, 1809, to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. ... Lincoln endured a youth of rough conditions, of mind-numbing and muscle-straining manual labor, of prolonged physical exertion that gave him a physique so lean and muscular that doctors performing his post-assassination autopsy ...