Abraham biography for children
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Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 in Kentucky to parents who were very poor at the time. They lived in the middle of the woods in a very small log cabin his father built. The woods were full of wild animals and no one else lived nearby. Every night Abe and his family slept on a hard dirt floor. When Abe was old enough to work he and his father, Thomas, ate a small breakfast, picked up their axes, and ventured off into the thick woods to chop down trees to make the land flat for farming. It was very hard work and they worked all day long. Abe became very strong chopping wood. He also began to grow very tall for his age. He grew so much that his pants became too small and because his parents were poor. They couldn’t afford to buy him new ones. Some people thought he looked funny because he was so tall and skinny, but they liked Abe because he was kind and funny.
In Abe’s town there wasn’t a school, so most days he just worked. For a short time, a teacher lived a few miles away so
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War and worked to end slavery. His life was cut short early in his second term when he was assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln was born to uneducated farmers. They lived in a one-room log cabin in Hodgenville, Kentucky. The family later moved to southern Indiana. Throughout Lincoln’s life, he demonstrated that anyone can achieve greatness. But it requires dedication and hard work. Lincoln attended school for no more than a year. He was an avidavidMARKUS WEGMANN/GETTY IMAGES very enthusiastic (adjective)As an avid soccer fan, she wrote to all her favorite players. reader, however. He did not attend law school. Instead, he studied on his own. He became an attorney in 1836.
As a lawyer, Lincoln earned a reputation for being clever, fair, and honest. Five years after moving to Springfield, Illinois, he married Mary Todd. Th
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Abraham, also known as Abram, is the divine progenitor of all Christian believers, Jewish or gentile, as well as the common patriarch of Islam and Judaism. He was the author of the covenant of the pieces, the distinctive relationship between the Jewish people and God.
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- Abraham’s father, Terah, was 70 years old when Abraham was born in a Mes