2022年1月24日 · 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....

Abraham Lincoln had four children with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln — Robert, Edward, William, and Thomas. Robert Todd Lincoln was the eldest of Abraham Lincoln’s sons. He was born on the 1st of August, 1843. He was the only one of Abraham’s children to survive into adulthood.

Abraham Lincoln’s father, Tom, was one of several children born to Revolutionary War Captain Abraham Lincoln (1744-1786) and Bathsheba Herring (1742-1836). Both were originally from Virginia. After the War, Tom’s father Abraham acquired a Kentucky farm and planned to establish his home there.

2023年11月14日 · Abraham Lincoln had four children with his wife Mary: Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Thomas Lincoln.

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.

2024年9月8日 · Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 into a family of modest means in a log cabin in rural Hardin County, Kentucky. He was the second of three children born to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks.

2015年6月23日 · Little is known about the Lincolns’ second son. A surviving story says that one day during a visit to Mary’s family, Eddie’s older brother, Robert Todd Lincoln, found a kitten and brought it to...

2019年4月17日 · On Feb. 12, 1809, on a snowy Sunday morning, Abraham Lincoln, a future president, was born in a corner of the cabin on a bed of poles, cornhusks and bearskins. Mrs. Hanks, a neighbor, came to...

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.

2020年11月6日 · Lincoln received sporadic education as a child, walking two miles to a schoolhouse when he was not needed to work on the family farm. Despite a lack of formal schooling, Lincoln read widely, often borrowing books.