Abraham Lincoln was born on Sunday, February 12, 1809. He was raised in a log
cabin in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Before Abraham grew up to be a knowledgeable and
organized United States president, he went through a lot of social issues during his
childhood. When he was 7 years of age, his family moved to southern Indiana. He went
to school with his older sister who in 1919, died of milk sickness. Lincoln had served in
the Black Hawk war in his late teens, but found no interest so he decided he wanted to be
a politician and joined to become a member of the Whig Party. He remained a Whig…
