DID YOU KNOW? ABRAHAM LINCOLN was born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin, Kentucky, to two uneducated farmers. They lived in a one-room log cabin. His mother died when he was 10 years old, just a few years after his father had moved the family to Illinois. He was raised in great poverty and had only 18 months of formal schooling. He studied very hard on his own and learned to read, write, and do mathematical problems. He went on to become a lawyer. One of his law partners once said of him, “His ambition was a great engine that knew no rest.” He lost the love of his life when he was 26, suffered a nervous breakdown at age 27, failed in business twice, lost eight elections, and suffered the death of three children all BEFORE he became our president and changed the course of our nation. On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth
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