November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th US president. Liberator American slaves, the national hero of the American people, Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, February 12, 1809.
from the earliest years. Due to the heavy financial situation of the family attended school less than a year, but managed to learn to read and write and to love books. When he grew up, then I worked part time at a lot of work at the post office, a logger, hunter, etc. Time for education he had and how to spell many sources: while he read only "Bible" and "Robinson Crusoe".