Abraham lincoln biography early years
Abraham lincoln biography failures.
Abraham Lincoln summed up his early years on the frontier in Kentucky and Indiana as "the short and simple annals of the poor." But the hardships he endured there as a youth weren’t unique.
Abraham lincoln biography early years
Life was harsh for most frontier families in the early s.
“Life on the frontier was little better than the life of an ox,” says Lincoln historian Michael Burlingame. But the Lincolns, he says, were especially poor.
Lincoln’s earliest recollections were of the Kentucky farm where he moved in with his parents, Thomas and Nancy, and sister, Sarah.
She was 4. Abraham was 2. His parents had been married five years.
Abraham lincoln biography summary
Young Lincoln Worked the Farm, Had Little Schooling
At Knob Creek, the Lincolns lived in a one-room cabin with a dirt floor, much like the one where Abraham was born roughly nine miles away near Hodgenville. Steep, heavily wooded hills rose on each side of the home.
On the leased, acre farm, Lincoln’s father planted corn and pumpkins on wide fields with rich soil.
In front of the