Blog Post — Today’s Abe’s Birthday!
Today is Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday — he was born February 12, 1809 in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. His mother, Nancy Hanks, died in 1818 and his father, Thomas Lincoln, a farmer and carpenter, remarried soon afterward. As many pioneer families did, Lincoln grew up in near poverty. The family’s several moves prevented a formal education and his few weeks of school attendance in Kentucky and Indiana amounted to less than a year.
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