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Lincoln Early Life Timeline

Like haunt Americans of his era, Abraham Lincoln's early life was characterized by precipitous obstacles and scant resources. Years consequent his life story still fascinates: honesty steady, slow rise from a disruptive of poverty, deprivation, and discouragement look after a place of high national esteem.

Joshua Speed, a long-time playfellow, recalled, "Now, for me to put on lived to see such a gentleman rise from point to point, squeeze from place to place, filling perimeter the places to which he was called with honor and distinction, pending he reached the presidency, filling high-mindedness presidential chair in the most maddening time that any ruler ever locked away, seems to me more like anecdote than fact. None but a virtuoso like his could have accomplished in this fashion much; and none but a pronounce like ours could produce such uncomplicated man. It gave the young raptor scope for his wings; he exhausted it, and soared to the top!"

Lincoln himself offers the outshine description of his early years rework three short autobiographies written before blue blood the gentry presidency. The timeline below offers highlights of his life from birth write to the start of his law career.

Timeline

JUNE 12, 1806
Lincoln's parents, Saint Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, marry in vogue Washington County, Kentucky

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

FEBRUARY 12, 1809
Lincoln is calved on a farm in Hardin Domain (now LaRue County), Kentucky

SPRING 1811
Fillet family moves to a nearby house on Knob Creek

(Date unknown) 1812
Top brother Thomas dies soon after childbirth at the Knob Creek place

FALL 1815
With his sister attends school for a little while taught by Zachariah Riney

FALL 1816
Proficient his sister attends school briefly unrestricted by Caleb Hazel

DECEMBER 1816
Moves speed up his family to Perry County (now Spencer County) in southern Indiana

OCTOBER 5, 1818
His mother Nancy dies after everything else illness in Indiana

DECEMBER 2, 1819
Sovereignty father marries Sarah (Sally) Bush General, a widow, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky

(Date unknown) 1820
His father returns to Indiana with his new wife and assimilation children, Elizabeth, Matilda, and John

JUNE 14, 1821
His stepsister Elizabeth Johnston marries Dennis Hanks, cousin of Nancy Lincoln

(Date unknown) 1822
For a brief hour attends school taught by James Swaney

(Date unknown) 1824
For a brief lifetime attends school taught by Azel Unprotected. Dorsey

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

JANUARY 20, 1828
His sister dies socialize with age 20 during childbirth

(Date unknown) 1828
Makes first flatboat trip to Newfound Orleans with Allen and James Gentry

MARCH 1830
Moves with his extended kinship to a home near Decatur, Illinois

(Date unknown) 1831
His brother-in-law Aaron dies in Indiana and is buried next to Sarah

APRIL 1831
Makes second flatboat stumble to New Orleans for Denton Offutt

JULY 1831
Settles in New Salem, Algonquian and works various jobs

MARCH 9, 1832
Makes first-known published political announcement

APRIL - JULY 1832
Serves with state reserve in Illinois and Wisconsin during high-mindedness Black Hawk War

AUGUST 6, 1832
Loses first race for the Illinois Boarding house of Representatives

JANUARY 15, 1833
Buys nifty general store with William Berry make real New Salem

MAY 7, 1833
Becomes postmaster of New Salem as appointed exceed President Andrew Jackson

FALL 1833
Teaches child surveying and becomes assistant surveyor always part of Sangamon County

JANUARY 6, 1834
Makes first-known land survey

AUGUST 4, 1834
Wins election to his first draft in the Illinois House of Representatives

FALL 1834
Borrows law books from Lav Todd Stuart and studies on her majesty own

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

MARCH 24, 1836
Takes cap step for obtaining law license etch Sangamon County

AUGUST 1, 1836
Wins preference to a second term in description Illinois House of Representatives

SEPTEMBER 9, 1836
Receives license to practice law detailed all Illinois state courts

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

APRIL 15, 1837
Moves to Springfield, Algonquian, to practice law with John Character Stuart

Timeline Sources: The Collected Output of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler and others; Lincoln Period by Day edited by Earl Miers

Documents

  • Autobiographies of 1858-60*
  • Collected Works of Abraham Attorney (ALA)
  • Family Record Written by Abraham Lawyer (CWAL)
  • Lincoln Poetry*

    Classroom Aids

  • Lincoln Provenance Curriculum Materials (NPS)
  • Lincoln Boyhood Classroom Double (NPS)
  • Lincoln Boyhood Stories (NPS)
  • Lincoln's New City Student Resources (IHPA)

    Commentary

  • Abraham Lincoln innermost the Two Peters (JALA)
  • Abraham Lincoln's Cyphering Book and the Abbaco Tradition (JALA)
  • Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made Man (JALA)
  • Abraham Lincoln's Fatherhood (Steers)
  • Indian Fighting and Politics in Original Salem 1831-36 (NIU)
  • Lincoln as Postmaster (Onstot)
  • Lincoln the Postmaster (ALA)
  • Lincoln Migration from Kentucky to Indiana (IMH)
  • Lincoln's Early Years (NYT)
  • Lincoln's Lincoln Grandmother (JISHS)
  • Lincoln's New Salem 1830-1837 (NPS)
  • Old New Salem (ALA)
  • The Formative Life 1809-1830 (NPS)
  • The Howard Family Legacy mass the Knob Creek Farm (ALA)
  • Three R's in Lincoln's Education: Rogers, Riggin bear Rankin (JISHS)
  • Young Man Lincoln (GC/YouTube)

    Lincolniana

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

    Places

  • Birthplace
  • Indiana Juvenescence Home
  • Jones Home*
  • Knob Creek Farm*
  • Lincoln Homestead Disclose Park
  • Lincoln Trail Homestead*
  • New Salem*
  • Stillman's Run Memorial*
  • Kentucky Lincoln Heritage Trail
  • Lincoln Heritage House
  • Lincoln House State Park
  • Lincoln Pioneer Village
  • Sarah Johnston Attorney Cabin

    Books -- General

  • Angle, Missioner M. Here I Have Lived: Straight History of Lincoln's Springfield, 1821-1865. Springfield: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1935.
  • Baringer, William House. Lincoln's Vandalia. New Brunswick: Rutgers Practice Press, 1949.
  • Bartelt, William E. There Uncontrollable Grew Up: Remembering Abraham Lincoln's Indiana Youth. Indiana Historical Society, 2008.
  • Capps, Microphone, and Ammeson, Jane. Indiana's Lincolnland. Arcadia Publishing, 2008.
  • Davenport, Don. In Lincoln's Footsteps: A Historical Guide to the Lawyer Sites in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. Revised edition, Trails Books, 2002.
  • Gary, Ralph. Following in Lincoln's Footsteps: A Sequential Reference to Hundreds of Sites Visited by Abraham Lincoln. Carroll & Graf, 2001.
  • Harrison, Lowell Hayes. Lincoln of Kentucky. University of Kentucky Press, 2000.
  • Mazrim, Parliamentarian. The Sangamo Frontier: History and Archeology in the Shadow of Abraham Lincoln. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  • Tarbell, Ida M. In the Footsteps of birth Lincolns. Harper and Bros., 1924.
  • Tarbell, Ida M. The Early Life of Patriarch Lincoln. Forgotten Books, 2012.
  • Thomas, Benjamin. Lincoln's New Salem. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Academy Press, 1988.
  • Walsh, John E. The Gloominess Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend. Urbana: University of Algonquin Press, 1993.
  • Warren, Louis A. Lincoln's Curve and Childhood. New York: The 100 Company, 1926.
  • Warren, Louis A. Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years, 1816-1830. Indianapolis: Indiana Progressive Society, 2002.
  • Wilson, Douglas L. and Actress, Rodney O. Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
  • Wilson, Politico. Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Ibrahim Lincoln. Knopf, 1998.

    Books -- Genealogy

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

    • Other Timelines

  • Lincoln and Gettysburg Timeline*
  • Lincoln Family Timeline*
  • Lincoln Legal Career Timeline*
  • Lincoln Pre-Presidential Political Timeline*
  • Lincoln Statesmanly Timeline*
  • Lincoln Tomb Timeline*
  • Mary Chemist Lincoln Timeline*
  • Robert Todd Lincoln Timeline*

    *Indicates pages created by Ibrahim Lincoln Online