Abraham Lincoln

Category
People (Government)
Begin
1809
End
1865
Region
North America
Abraham Lincoln
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Among the early Hoosiers was Thomas Lincoln, who took his family, including seven-year-old Abraham, from Kentucky into Indiana in 1816. . . . . Started the winter of 1816-17, upon their arrival in Indiana, in a rude shelter enclosed on three sides and open on the fourth until Thomas could build a regular log cabin. In October 1818, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, wife of Thomas and mother of nine-year-old Abraham, died of brucellosis. A frontier household needed two parents. Thomas soon found a widow who also needed to remarry and brought her to the cabin to bring up his children with her own. Sarah Bush Johnson Lincoln did an excellent job of it." [Howe: What Hath God Wrought, p. 137, 141] From Lincoln's Second Inaugural: "If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him" [Howe: What Hath God Wrought, p. 160]

This period is linked to the following movies

Movie title
Genre
Released
Lincoln
Historical
2012