Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin in LaRue County, Kentucky in a town now known as Hodgenville. Lincoln was named after his dead grandfather, who was killed in 1786, shot from being ambushed by an Indian while clearing a field. At a young age, Abe learned to chop wood.
In 1858 Lincoln wrote that his first known ancestor was Samuel Lincoln who migrated from Norwich, England in 1638 to Hingham (or Hanghim), Mass...
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Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin in LaRue County, Kentucky in a town now known as Hodgenville. Lincoln was named after his dead grandfather, who was killed in 1786, shot from being ambushed by an Indian while clearing a field. At a young age, Abe learned to chop wood.
In 1858 Lincoln wrote that his first known ancestor was Samuel Lincoln who migrated from Norwich, England in 1638 to Hingham (or Hanghim), Massachusettes. Lincoln's grandfather, the original Captain Abraham Lincoln, was born in Pennsylvania and moved with his father to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia around 1766. They settled around Linville Creek in Augusta (now Rockingham) County and the Captain (a rank earned in the Virginia militia) bought the property from his father in 1773. Captain Abraham moved west to Kentucky with his family where, at the age of 42 in 1786, he was killed in an ambush by an Indian while working his field. His son and Lincoln's future father, Thomas,...
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