The Lincolns left Indiana in March of 1830 when the future president was 21 years old. They headed west for the 225-mile trip to their new farmstead near present-day Decatur, Illinois, where Abraham and his father built a new log cabin and a barn and Abraham split wooden rails to fence their land. In the …
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Abraham Lincoln became proficient with an ax when he helped his father, Thomas, clear the forest and build a cabin on the land the Lincolns had bought in Indiana after moving from Kentucky in 1816. Lincoln also learned basic carpentry from his father and became adept at building simple furniture (e.g., three-legged stools). In a …
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Abraham Lincoln may be the most famous of all of our presidents. George Washington could perhaps give Lincoln a run for his money in that regard, but Lincoln, unlike Washington, was born into very poor circumstances in the frontier of Kentucky, where life could be both harsh and perilous. Asked much later to write an …
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