Abraham Lincoln, born February
12, 1809, Hardin County, Kentucky. "Lincoln Day."
1817 - Settled in Perry County, Indiana; father, mother,
sister, and self.
1818 - October 5, Mrs. Thomas Lincoln (Nancy Hanks) died;
buried Spencer County, Indiana. In 1901, a monument erected
to her memory, the base being the former Abraham Lincoln
vault. Schooling, a few months, 1819, '20 and '28, about
six months' school.
1819 - Thomas (father of A. L.) marries again: Mrs. Johnson
(Sally Bush) of Kentucky.
1830 - March, Lincoln family move into
Illinois, near Decatur.
1831 - Works for himself: boatbuilding and sailing, carpentering,
hog-sticking, sawmilling, blacksmithing, river-pilot, logger,
etc., in Menard County, Indiana.
1831 - Election clerk at New Salem. Captain and private
(re-enlisted) in Black Hawk War. Store clerk and merchant,
New Salem. Studies for the law.
1832 - First political speech. Henry Clay, Whig platform.
Defeated through strong local vote. Deputy surveyor, at
three dollars a day, Sangamon County.
1834 - Elected to State legislature as Whig. (Resides in
Springfield till 1861. Law partner with John L. Stuart
till 1840.)
1835 - Postmaster, New Salem; appointed by President Jackson.
1838 to 1840 - Reelected to State legislature.
1840 - Partner in law with S. T. Logan.
1842 - Married Miss Mary Todd,
of Kentucky. Of the four sons, Edward died in infancy;
William ("Willie") at twelve
at Washington; Thomas ("Tad") at Springfield, aged twenty;
Robert M. T., minister to Great Britain, presidential candidate,
secretary of war to President Garfield. His only grandson,
Abraham, died in London, March, 1890.
1844 - Proposed for Congress.
1845 - Law partner with W. H. Herndon, for life.
1846 - Elected to Congress, the single Whig Illinois member;
voted antislavery; sought abolition in the D. C.; voted
Wilmot Proviso. Declined reelection.
1848 - Electioneered for General Taylor.
1849 - Defeated by Shields for United States senator.
1852 - Electioneered for General Scott.
1854 - Won the State over to the Republicans, but by arrangement
transferred his claim to the senatorship to Trumbull. October,
debated with Douglas. Declined the governorship in favor
of Bissell.
1856 - Organized the Republican Party and became its chief;
nominated vice-president, but was not chosen by its first
convention; worked for the Fremont-Dayton presidential
ticket.
1858 - Lost in the legislature the senatorship to Douglas.
1859 - Placed for the presidential
candidacy. Made Eastern tour "to get acquainted."
1860 - May 9, nominated for President, "shutting out" Seward,
Chase, Cameron, Dayton, Wade, Bates, and McLean.
1861 - March 4, inaugurated sixteenth President; succeeds
Buchanan, and precedes his vice - Andrew Johnson, whom General
Grant succeeded. Civil War began by firing on Fort Sumter,
April 12.
1862 - September 22, emancipation announced.
1863 - January 1, emancipation proclaimed. November 19,
Gettysburg Cemetery address. December 9, pardon to rebels
proclaimed.
Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address
1864 - Unanimous nomination as Republican presidential
candidate for re-election, June 7. Reelected November 8.
1865 - March 4, inaugurated for the second term. April
14, assassinated in Ford's Theater, Washington, by a mad
actor, Wilkes Booth. April 19, body lay in state at Washington.
April 26, Booth slain in resisting arrest, by Sergeant
Boston Corbett, near Port Royal. April 21 to May 4, funeral-train
through principal cities North, to Springfield, Illinois.
1871 - Temporarily deposited in catacomb.
1874 - In catacomb, in sarcophagus. The completed monument
dedicated.
1876 - To frustrate repetition of body-snatchers' attempt,
reinterred deeper. 1900 - A fifth removal; the whole structure solidly rebuilt,
containing the martyred President, his wife, and their
three children, as well as the grandson bearing Abraham's
name. |
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