ABRAHAM LINCOLN

EARLY LIFE

• Grew up on the western frontier
• Entire schooling equaled a year
• Was capatin for a company in the black hawk war
• His company never saw battle

PERSONAL LIFE

• Was partner is a grocery store that failed
• This failure left him with a large sum of debt
• Is it believed he was in love with an engaged woman-
• - ann Rutledge died of typhoid fever in 1835
• Began practicing law under john t. Stuart in 1836

PRESIDENCY

• Lincoln's election outarged southerners, sparking tensions
• Lincoln established thanksgiving as a national holiday
• Lincoln was photographed with john wilkes booth-
• - At his second inauguration

QUOTES

• "If I had six hours to chop down a tree,
• i'd spend the first four sharpening the axe."
• "The best way to predict the future is to create it"
• "In the end it's not the years in your life that counts,
• It's the life in your ears"

CHARACTER

• Honest
• Witty
• Determined