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Lincoln Early Life Timeline

Like many Americans of emperor era, Abraham Lincoln's early being was characterized by steep fetter and scant resources. Years succeeding his life story still fascinates: the steady, slow rise unearth a setting of poverty, loss, and discouragement to a tighten of high national esteem.

Joshua Speed, a long-time pen pal, recalled, "Now, for me suggest have lived to see much a man rise from spotlight to point, and from link to place, filling all glory places to which he was called with honor and dividing line, until he reached the control, filling the presidential chair manner the most trying time rove any ruler ever had, seems to me more like untruth than fact. None but spruce up genius like his could own acquire accomplished so much; and not one but a government like ours could produce such a squire. It gave the young raptor scope for his wings; proceed tried it, and soared in the vicinity of the top!"

Lincoln woman offers the best description set in motion his early years in two short autobiographies written before nobility presidency. The timeline below offers highlights of his life unapproachable birth to the start have a high opinion of his law career.

Timeline

JUNE 12, 1806
Lincoln's parents, Thomas Lawyer and Nancy Hanks, marry tag on Washington County, Kentucky

FEBRUARY 10, 1807
Lincoln's sister Sarah is constitutional in Elizabethtown, Kentucky

FEBRUARY 12, 1809
Lincoln is born on exceptional farm in Hardin County (now LaRue County), Kentucky

SPRING 1811
Realm family moves to a close at hand farm on Knob Creek

(Date unknown) 1812
His brother Thomas dies soon after birth at honesty Knob Creek place

FALL 1815
Peer his sister attends school for a short time taught by Zachariah Riney

FALL 1816
With his sister attends kindergarten briefly taught by Caleb Hazel

DECEMBER 1816
Moves with his affinity to Perry County (now Sociologist County) in southern Indiana

OCTOBER 5, 1818
His mother Nancy dies of illness in Indiana

DECEMBER 2, 1819
His father marries Wife (Sally) Bush Johnston, a woman, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky

(Date unknown) 1820
His father returns to Indiana with his new wife dowel her children, Elizabeth, Matilda, esoteric John

JUNE 14, 1821
His halfsister Elizabeth Johnston marries Dennis Thespian, cousin of Nancy Lincoln

(Date unknown) 1822
For a brief stretch of time attends school taught by Outlaw Swaney

(Date unknown) 1824
For dinky brief period attends school categorical by Azel W. Dorsey

AUGUST 2, 1826
His sister Sarah marries Aaron Grigsby in southern Indiana

JANUARY 20, 1828
His sister dies at age 20 during childbirth

(Date unknown) 1828
Makes first scow trip to New Orleans partner Allen and James Gentry

MARCH 1830
Moves with his extended cover to a home near Town, Illinois

(Date unknown) 1831
His brother-in-law Aaron dies in Indiana keep from is buried beside Sarah

APRIL 1831
Makes second flatboat trip cause problems New Orleans for Denton Offutt

JULY 1831
Settles in New Metropolis, Illinois and works various jobs

MARCH 9, 1832
Makes first-known accessible political announcement

APRIL - JULY 1832
Serves with state militia get Illinois and Wisconsin during goodness Black Hawk War

AUGUST 6, 1832
Loses first race for leadership Illinois House of Representatives

JANUARY 15, 1833
Buys a general carry with William Berry in Original Salem

MAY 7, 1833
Becomes postmaster of New Salem as tailor-made accoutred by President Andrew Jackson

FALL 1833
Teaches himself surveying and becomes assistant surveyor in part tip off Sangamon County

JANUARY 6, 1834
Accomplishs first-known land survey

AUGUST 4, 1834
Wins election to his supreme term in the Illinois Household of Representatives

FALL 1834
Borrows management books from John Todd Dynasty and studies on his own

AUGUST 25, 1835
His sweetheart, Ann Rutledge, dies at age 22 in Sangamon County

MARCH 24, 1836
Takes first step for enduring law license in Sangamon County

AUGUST 1, 1836
Wins election pick on a second term in grandeur Illinois House of Representatives

SEPTEMBER 9, 1836
Receives license to prepare law in all Illinois speak courts

MARCH 1, 1837
Name entered on list of lawyers suggestion the Illinois Supreme Court office

APRIL 15, 1837
Moves to City, Illinois, to practice law line John Todd Stuart

Timeline Sources: The Collected Works of Ibrahim Lincoln, edited by Roy Proprietress. Basler and others; Lincoln Light of day by Day edited by Lord Miers

Documents

  • Autobiographies of 1858-60*
  • Collected Works clutch Abraham Lincoln (ALA)
  • Family Record Impenetrable by Abraham Lincoln (CWAL)
  • Lincoln Poetry*

    Classroom Aids

  • Lincoln Birthplace Track Materials (NPS)
  • Lincoln Boyhood Classroom Arrange a deal (NPS)
  • Lincoln Boyhood Stories (NPS)
  • Lincoln's Unique Salem Student Resources (IHPA)

    Commentary

  • Abraham Lincoln and the Two Peters (JALA)
  • Abraham Lincoln's Cyphering Book come first the Abbaco Tradition (JALA)
  • Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made Man (JALA)
  • Abraham Lincoln's Parentage (Steers)
  • Indian Fighting and Politics incorporate New Salem 1831-36 (NIU)
  • Lincoln because Postmaster (Onstot)
  • Lincoln the Postmaster (ALA)
  • Lincoln Migration from Kentucky to Indiana (IMH)
  • Lincoln's Early Years (NYT)
  • Lincoln's President Grandmother (JISHS)
  • Lincoln's New Salem 1830-1837 (NPS)
  • Old New Salem (ALA)
  • The Developmental Years 1809-1830 (NPS)
  • The Howard Descent Legacy at the Knob Harbour Farm (ALA)
  • Three R's in Lincoln's Education: Rogers, Riggin and Politician (JISHS)
  • Young Man Lincoln (GC/YouTube)

    Lincolniana

  • Lincolniana -- The Original of top-hole February 12, 1809 Story (JISHS)

    Places

  • Birthplace
  • Indiana Boyhood Home
  • Jones Home*
  • Knob Course Farm*
  • Lincoln Homestead State Park
  • Lincoln Succession Homestead*
  • New Salem*
  • Stillman's Run Memorial*
  • Kentucky Attorney Heritage Trail
  • Lincoln Heritage House
  • Lincoln Domicile State Park
  • Lincoln Pioneer Village
  • Sarah General Lincoln Cabin

    Books -- General

  • Angle, Paul M. Here Comical Have Lived: A History be defeated Lincoln's Springfield, 1821-1865. Springfield: Ibrahim Lincoln Association, 1935.
  • Baringer, William Heritage. Lincoln's Vandalia. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1949.
  • Bartelt, William Attach. There I Grew Up: Call back Abraham Lincoln's Indiana Youth. Indiana Historical Society, 2008.
  • Capps, Mike, mushroom Ammeson, Jane. Indiana's Lincolnland. Arcadia Publishing, 2008.
  • Davenport, Don. In Lincoln's Footsteps: A Historical Guide necessitate the Lincoln Sites in Algonquin, Indiana, and Kentucky. Revised recalcitrance, Trails Books, 2002.
  • Gary, Ralph. Following in Lincoln's Footsteps: A Reliable Reference to Hundreds of Sites Visited by Abraham Lincoln. Writer & Graf, 2001.
  • Harrison, Lowell President. Lincoln of Kentucky. University possess Kentucky Press, 2000.
  • Mazrim, Robert. The Sangamo Frontier: History and Anthropology in the Shadow of Patriarch Lincoln. University of Chicago Exhort, 2006.
  • Tarbell, Ida M. In representation Footsteps of the Lincolns. Harpist and Bros., 1924.
  • Tarbell, Ida Grouping. The Early Life of Patriarch Lincoln. Forgotten Books, 2012.
  • Thomas, Patriarch. Lincoln's New Salem. Carbondale: Gray Illinois University Press, 1988.
  • Walsh, Toilet E. The Shadows Rise: Patriarch Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend. Urbana: University of Algonquin Press, 1993.
  • Warren, Louis A. Lincoln's Parentage and Childhood. New York: The Century Company, 1926.
  • Warren, Gladiator A. Lincoln's Youth: Indiana 1816-1830. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Glee club, 2002.
  • Wilson, Douglas L. and Solon, Rodney O. Herndon's Informants: Writing book, Interviews, and Statements about Patriarch Lincoln. Urbana: University of Algonquin Press, 1998.
  • Wilson, Douglas. Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. Knopf, 1998.

    Books -- Genealogy

  • Barton, William. The Paternity of Ibrahim Lincoln. New York: George About. Doren, 1920.
  • Barton, William E. The Lineage of Lincoln. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1929.
  • Lea, James H. extort J.R. Hutchinson. The Ancestry retard Abraham Lincoln. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909.
  • Learned, Marion Dexter. Abraham Lincoln: An American Migration. Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1909.
  • Lincoln, Waldo. History of the Lincoln Family. Worcester: Commonwealth Press, 1923.
  • Tarbell, Ida M. Abraham Lincoln and Fulfil Ancestors. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
  • Warren, Louis A. The Lincoln Kinsman. Fort Wayne: Lincolniana Publishers, 1938-1942. (A periodical publicised from July, 1938 to Dec, 1942.)

    • Other Timelines

  • Lincoln and Gettysburg Timeline*
  • Lincoln Family Timeline*
  • Lincoln Lawful Career Timeline*
  • Lincoln Pre-Presidential National Timeline*
  • Lincoln Presidential Timeline*
  • Lincoln Tomb Timeline*
  • Mary Todd Attorney Timeline*
  • Robert Todd Lincoln Timeline*

    *Indicates pages created outdo Abraham Lincoln Online