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~ The young Abraham Lincoln described himself as “a piece of floating driftwood.”
~ Abraham Lincoln argued a case in front of the United States Supreme Court—and lost.

~ Abraham Lincoln is the only president in American history to hold a patent.

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Abraham Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, was a Maryland native born in 1838 who remained in the North during the Civil War despite his Confederate sympathies. As the conflict entered its final stages, he and several associates hatched a plot to kidnap the president and take him to Richmond, the Confederate capital.

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February 12 1809 - Abraham Lincoln is born in a one-room log cabin at Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgeville, Kentucky.

December 1827 - Lincoln earns his first dollar, ferrying passengers to steamboats on the Ohio River.

January 20, 1828 - Lincoln’s sister, Sarah Lincoln Grigsby, dies while giving birth.

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Abraham Lincoln is remembered for his vital role as the leader in preserving the Union during the Civil War and beginning the process (Emancipation Proclamation) that led to the end of slavery in the United States.