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he was two, the Lincoln’s moved a few miles to another farm on the old
Cumberland Trail. A year later, his mother gave birth to another boy,
Thomas, but he died a few days later. When Lincoln was seven his family
moved to Indiana. In 1818, Lincoln’s mother died from a deadly disease
called the “milk-sick.” Then ten years later his sister died and left him with
Lincoln traveled to New Salem in April 1831 and settled there the
following July. In the fall of 1836 he and Mrs. Bennett Abell had a deal
that if she brought her single sister to New Salem he had to promise to
marry her. When she arrived he was not to pleased with her because her
skin was full of fat. Around seven months later he asked Mrs. Orville
Browning to marry him but she said no. Lincoln met his wife to be, Mary
Todd, at the grand cotillion in honor of the completion of the new capital
building in 1839. They got engaged and a while later he broke off the
engagement because she was seeing other men. Around a year later in
Springfield on November 4, 1842 Abraham and Mary got married. In 1844,
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party’s first and primary goal was to prevent Democrat James Buchanan
from winning the Presidency, it failed. The proclamation
promised “that on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand-eight hundred and sixty three, all persons held as slaves shall be
then, thenceforth and forever free. Lincoln got a
license to practice law after several hard years of teaching himself. The first
idea he had was to kidnap the President but he needed help. What Lincoln did not know is that his assassination was being
planned on this joyous day. He then added John Surratt to his team, whose mother was
keeping a Washington boardinghouse. Secretary of the
Treasurer Chase, put his own picture on it instead of Lincoln’s. Lincoln’s
first official act was the appointment of John G.
In November he won but resigned because he wanted a seat in the
United States Senate, where he thought he could make a real difference. At the funeral for
the men that had died in the battle, he gave the Gettysburg Address. In the summer of 1854
Lincoln decided to campaign for a position in the Illinois State Assembly.
Lincoln did not stay buried at the Oak Ridge Cemetery. It was a one-and-a-half story frame cottage. Booth had planned not only to assassinate the President but also
to have Secretary of State Seward and Vice President Johnson killed.
Lincoln was so heart broken he went to the cemetery twice the week
after he died and opened the coffin and looked at his son.
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