Abraham Lincoln Research Paper

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky on February 12, 1809, in a state located at the east south-central region of the United States, to parent Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln of class of people below the middle class, having the lowest social rank or standard due to low income, lack of skills or education. Abraham had a younger brother Thomas and an elder sister Sarah, who died in the early stage of childhood. Abraham Lincoln spent his childhood growing up in a log cabin, his father an uneducated but relatively successful Kentucky farmer found that the laws did not protect him from people who were out to poach his land, he became frustrated and took precaution and soon moved his lovely family to Perry county Indiana located

In the year 1818, Nancy became ill with “milk sickness” and later died that same year. Nancy death left sally and Abraham in the sole care of their father, they were all heart broken and with the absence of Nancy the house was not well kept, Thomas was so carried away by his hunting activity while he still tried to cultivate the land for farming, with this Thomas realized the need for help so therefore he left the eleven year old sally and the nine years old Abraham in the cabin and went back to Kentucky in search of a new wife. During this period sally and Abraham got very skinny because they had nothing to eat other than dried berries that had been stored away by Nancy and the house left in terrible condition. Six months later Thomas pulled up in a horse-drawn wagon with a new wife by the name Sarah Bush Johnston and her three children. In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak, the family migrated and settled on public land in Macon County,

Sarah His stepmother who he loves so much encouraged Lincoln's taste for reading. Abraham continued to learn on his own from life experience and through reading and reciting what he had read or heard from others. Lacking a formal education, Lincoln's personal philosophy was shaped by "an amazingly retentive memory and a passion for reading and learning." It was Lincoln's reading, rather than his relationships, that were most influential in shaping his personal beliefs. A second tragedy befell the family in 1828, when Abraham’s sister, Sarah, died in childbirth. After helping his father establish a farm in Macon County, Illinois at the age of twenty one year old, young Lincoln set out on his own. He worked with different people and got himself with different occupations. Lincoln worked as a boat man, store clerk, surveyor, soldier, militia, and became a lawyer in