Before his untimely assassination at age 56 and prior to his career as a lawyer Abraham Lincoln excelled at wrestling. Born in 1809, Lincoln was living in New Salem, Illinois by 1831. Then in his ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky and grew up in Indiana. The youngest child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Lincoln had one sister three years his ...

Tom Hanks is famous in his own right, but is he related to one of the most famous U.S. presidents, Abraham Lincoln? Here's what we know.

The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...

Central Park Plaza, had a celebration for Abraham Lincoln's 216th birthday ... taken with a cutout of the 16th president. Lincoln was born Feb. 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin near Hodgenville ...

Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case ... Sojourner Truth and Rosa Parks." Legins-Costley was born in 1813 in Kaskaskia, then the capital of the Illinois Territory, some five years ...

“He was born in Pottsville in 1832 ... “John Weaver was the first and last volunteer for Abraham Lincoln,” wrote Downey, whose collection of Civil War writings was donated to the Pottsville ...

Although it isn’t confirmed, Ann Mayes Rutledge was allegedly Abraham Lincoln's first love. Born near Henderson, Kentucky, Ann Mayes Rutledge was the third of 10 children born to Mary Ann Miller ...