Show LINCOLN'S BIRTH BIRTHOn On February 1 12 1809 Abraham braham Lincoln sixteenth president of or tho the L Limited Stal Stales C was born in a log 10 cabin in iii count county Kentucky As s a n. boy bor Lincoln knew the tho hardships and privations o of frontier fron Iron tier life All 11 11 his Is schooling comb com Coin b ned would probably not have p made matJo up m more lc than tItan ono one year eal After serving in cl as a captain in the the Black Blick Haw JIn war Lincoln ran i-an for 01 or the legislature Following his defeat and the tho failure of or nn m attempt a little 11 later hater r to run a a. general store he ho began the stud study of or law la In 1834 ho Wll was finally elected to tho legislature o and null w was vaa s reelected two yeas years later About hout two years cars before his election to congress he ho married Mary To Todd d As a representative In con congress res Lincoln found In fn the tIme senate a great rival al in Stephen A A. A Douglas with whom ho engaged ed In several hIstoric public debates on slavery cry Nominated at Chicago o in iii 1860 1360 for fOI president Lincoln won von the election Ho lie was In office but six weeks when tho the Civil war broke out Shortly after tho the battle of Antietam in which tho the Union forces otc s had tho the upper hand the president issued hi his famous emancipation eman 11 proclamation declaring he would woul on January 1 I. I 1863 free the slaves ts of all tho states statts then or ur thereafter In rebellion Lincoln 1 l I n W was i-elected i hut but hi I Iho short hort second term terni WitS was cut ho was mortally wounded by J P f. f a assassins assassin's bullet while he t Fords Ford's |