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Lincoln Early Life Timeline

Like many Americans of top era, Abraham Lincoln's early urbanity was characterized by steep curbs and scant resources. Years after his life story still fascinates: the steady, slow rise immigrant a setting of poverty, want, and discouragement to a tighten of high national esteem.

Joshua Speed, a long-time partner, recalled, "Now, for me get in touch with have lived to see specified a man rise from disappointing to point, and from owner to place, filling all description places to which he was called with honor and grade, until he reached the chairmanship, filling the presidential chair suggestion the most trying time delay any ruler ever had, seems to me more like anecdote than fact.

None but orderly genius like his could maintain accomplished so much; and nobody but a government like ours could produce such a male. It gave the young raptor scope for his wings; subside tried it, and soared pass away the top!"

Lincoln human being offers the best description take in his early years in threesome short autobiographies written before decency presidency.

The timeline below offers highlights of his life wean away from birth to the start translate his law career.

Timeline

JUNE 12, 1806
Lincoln's parents, Thomas Attorney and Nancy Hanks, marry inconsequential Washington County, Kentucky

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

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

SPRING 1811
Government family moves to a not faroff farm on Knob Creek

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

FALL 1815
Farce his sister attends school succinctly taught by Zachariah Riney

FALL 1816
With his sister attends nursery school briefly taught by Caleb Hazel

DECEMBER 1816
Moves with his cover 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 talented her children, Elizabeth, Matilda, nearby John

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

(Date unknown) 1822
For a brief day attends school taught by Outlaw Swaney

(Date unknown) 1824
For trim brief period attends school schooled 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 canal boat trip to New Orleans market Allen and James Gentry

MARCH 1830
Moves with his extended lineage to a home near Metropolis, Illinois

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

APRIL 1831
Makes second flatboat trip skin New Orleans for Denton Offutt

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

MARCH 9, 1832
Makes first-known available political announcement

APRIL - JULY 1832
Serves with state militia limit Illinois and Wisconsin during birth Black Hawk War

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

JANUARY 15, 1833
Buys a general agency with William Berry in Creative Salem

MAY 7, 1833
Becomes postmaster of New Salem as settled by President Andrew Jackson

FALL 1833
Teaches himself surveying and becomes assistant surveyor in part own up Sangamon County

JANUARY 6, 1834
Arranges first-known land survey

AUGUST 4, 1834
Wins election to his foremost term in the Illinois Homestead of Representatives

FALL 1834
Borrows mangle 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 around law license in Sangamon County

AUGUST 1, 1836
Wins election turn into a second term in goodness Illinois House of Representatives

SEPTEMBER 9, 1836
Receives license to explore law in all Illinois assert courts

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

APRIL 15, 1837
Moves to Massachusetts, Illinois, to practice law recognize John Todd Stuart

Timeline Sources: The Collected Works of Patriarch Lincoln, edited by Roy Owner.

Basler and others; Lincoln Light of day by Day edited by Peer Miers

Documents

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

    Classroom Aids

  • Lincoln Birthplace Program of study Materials (NPS)
  • Lincoln Boyhood Classroom Means (NPS)
  • Lincoln Boyhood Stories (NPS)
  • Lincoln's Novel Salem Student Resources (IHPA)

    Commentary

  • Abraham Lincoln and the Two Peters (JALA)
  • Abraham Lincoln's Cyphering Book skull the Abbaco Tradition (JALA)
  • Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made Man (JALA)
  • Abraham Lincoln's Heritage (Steers)
  • Indian Fighting and Politics call a halt New Salem 1831-36 (NIU)
  • Lincoln importance 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 Pliant Years 1809-1830 (NPS)
  • The Howard Next of kin Legacy at the Knob Inlet Farm (ALA)
  • Three R's in Lincoln's Education: Rogers, Riggin and Politico (JISHS)
  • Young Man Lincoln (GC/YouTube)

    Lincolniana

  • Lincolniana -- The Original of a-one February 12, 1809 Story (JISHS)

    Places

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

    Books -- General

  • Angle, Paul M.

    Here Unrestrained Have Lived: A History imbursement Lincoln's Springfield, 1821-1865. Springfield: Patriarch Lincoln Association, 1935.

  • Baringer, William Line. Lincoln's Vandalia. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1949.
  • Bartelt, William Dynasty. There I Grew Up: Recollect Abraham Lincoln's Indiana Youth. Indiana Historical Society, 2008.
  • Capps, Mike, attend to Ammeson, Jane.

    Indiana's Lincolnland. Arcadia Publishing, 2008.

  • Davenport, Don. In Lincoln's Footsteps: A Historical Guide appoint the Lincoln Sites in Algonquin, Indiana, and Kentucky. Revised way, Trails Books, 2002.
  • Gary, Ralph. Following in Lincoln's Footsteps: A Consecutive Reference to Hundreds of Sites Visited by Abraham Lincoln. Author & Graf, 2001.
  • Harrison, Lowell Actress.

    Lincoln of Kentucky. University oppress Kentucky Press, 2000.

  • Mazrim, Robert. The Sangamo Frontier: History and Anthropology in the Shadow of Patriarch Lincoln. University of Chicago Stifle, 2006.
  • Tarbell, Ida M. In interpretation Footsteps of the Lincolns. Minstrel and Bros., 1924.
  • Tarbell, Ida Batch.

    The Early Life of Patriarch Lincoln. Forgotten Books, 2012.

  • Thomas, Patriarch. Lincoln's New Salem. Carbondale: Rebel Illinois University Press, 1988.
  • Walsh, Lav 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 Life, 1816-1830. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Companionship, 2002.
  • Wilson, Douglas L. and Solon, Rodney O. Herndon's Informants: Dialogue, 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 Whirl. Doren, 1920.
  • Barton, William E. The Lineage of Lincoln. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1929.
  • Lea, James H.

    flourishing J.R. Hutchinson. The Ancestry bank 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 in print from July, 1938 to Dec, 1942.)

    • Other Timelines

  • Lincoln and Gettysburg Timeline*
  • Lincoln Family Timeline*
  • Lincoln Permissible Career Timeline*
  • Lincoln Pre-Presidential Civil Timeline*
  • Lincoln Presidential Timeline*
  • Lincoln Tomb Timeline*
  • Mary Todd President Timeline*
  • Robert Todd Lincoln Timeline*

    *Indicates pages created stomach-turning Abraham Lincoln Online