Abraham
Lincoln
1869-1865
State: Illinois
Party: Republican
Married: Mary Todd
Lincoln
Lived: Feb. 12, 1809-
April 15, 1865
Before he was president
Abraham
Lincoln’s nickname was Honest Abe.
Abraham
Lincoln was a lawyer, and lots of people came to him with their problems.
Abraham was a smart lawyer and helped people answer their problems. Abraham was a lawyer, so he traveled a lot
with other lawyers and a judge. The lawyers and the judge had to stay in poor
country inns. The food was not that great the beds were crawling with bugs, and
worst of all the lawyers had to share beds. The judge was so big he got his own
bed. Once, Abe whispered a joke to another lawyer. The lawyer laughed out loud. The judge yelled “quiet! You are fined five
dollars.” After the trial, the judge asked what was the joke. Abe told him, and
the judge laughed so hard that he said “That was worth five dollars you do not
have to pay the fine”.
At another trial
two men argued who owned a young colt. Each said they owned the mother of the
colt. Abe took the two mother horses on one side of the yard and the colt on
the other side, then, he let the colt free, and the colt ran to its mother.
Abe got a
letter from Hannah Armstrong. She had helped Abe and had given him a home, did
his laundry, and made his food for him now. She was writing to him for help. Her
son Duff was in jail for murder! Abe
wrote back right away “Of course I will help you”. Duff had been in a big fight. Someone said he
had killed someone. Duff said he did not,
but no one believed him, so now he was in jail. Abe believed Duff, but how could
prove that Duff did not kill someone? Abe asked the person who said Duff
had killed someone, “how could you see him kill someone?” “It was bright as day, for the moon was full.”
Abe picked up
a book of famous facts. It said that there was no moon at the time of the fight. Now no one believed the man anymore, and Duff
was set free.
Abraham
Lincoln also liked animals. One day, he had put on his best coat and top hat, for
they were fairly new, and he was going
to a trial. He got into his buggy. On
the way, there he saw some deep mud and a pig was stuck in it and was trying to
get out, but every time he got close, he would slip in the mud again. The same
thing happened over and over again. Abe felt sorry for the pig and stopped to
help the pig, and then he remembered his new cloths and decided to keep
going. He could not stop thinking about
the pig, so he went back and helped the pig out. He was really muddy himself, but
he still walked right in to the meeting muddy.
Abe did not
like slavery he had fought for Illinois to be a free state, but there was new
territories, and Abe did not want slavery to spread to these states. He tried
to be governor and ran against Stephen Douglas but lost the election. Then he ran to be president and won. Now
he is one of our greatest presidents in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
When he was president
Abraham was the sixteenth President of the United States of America.
Abraham was the sixteenth President of the United States of America.
Lincoln’s
vice presidents were Hannibal Hamlin, and Andrew Johnson.
Lincoln is the
tallest president in the United States of American at 6 feet 4 inches but his
statue is 19 feet tall.
When Lincoln
wore his stove pipe hat he is another 6 inches tall.
Lincoln’s
face is on the five dollar bill and the penny.
The Lincoln
Memorial is in Washington D. C. inside is the statue of Abraham Lincoln. The Lincoln Memorial is on the back of the
penny.
Abraham
Lincoln helped the United States of America through one of its hardest times-The Civil War.
Abraham did not like slavery.
Changing
The Face Of History
Eleven year old
Grace Bedell wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln in 1860 who was running for
president. Abe “Honest Abe” believed that no slavery should be allowed, and
Grace felt strongly about him. She wished very badly that she could vote for
him. One day her father came back with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and his
vice president Mr. Hamlin. Grace put the pictures on the wall. The shadows in
her room made a beard on Abraham Lincoln’s face. Grace liked this new look and
wrote a letter to him.
Dear Sir,
“My father
has just got home from the fair and brought me a picture of you and Mr.
Hamlin’s . I am a little girl only eleven
years old, but I want you to be president of the united states very much
so I hope you won’t think much me very bold to write to
such a great man like you are. Have you any little girls about as large
as I am so I can give them her love and tell her to write to me. If
you cannot answer this letter , I have got four brothers and part of them will
vote for you any way if you will let your whiskers grow I will try to get the
rest of them to vote for you. You would
look a great deal better. For your face is so thin, all the like the ladies
like whiskers and will tease their husbands to vote for you and then you will
president. My father is going to vote for you. And if I was a man I would vote for you to but I
will try and to get everyone to vote for you. I think that rail fence around your
picture makes it look very pretty. I
have a baby sister she is nine weeks old and is just as cunning as can be. When
you direct your letter, direct to
Grace Bedell Westfield
Chatauque
I must not
write any more answer this letter right off
good bye”
“Grace Bedell”
Grace secretly mailed her own letter on a gray October day. It was addressed to the Honorable Abraham Lincoln
Springfield, Illinois. Seven days later Grace got this reply
My dear little miss,
“Your very agreeable
letter of the fifteenth is received—I
regret the necessity of saying I have no daughters-I have three sons one seventeen,
one nine, and one seven years, of age. They are right now with their mother
constitute my whole family—as to the whiskers, having never worn any do you not
think people would call it a piece of silly affection If I begin it now?”
“Your very sincere well-
wisher A. Lincoln”
Word spread quickly through Westfield that the great honest
man Abraham Lincoln had wrote a letter to Grace Bedell. Grace couldn’t have
been happier when Abraham was elected president. On his way to Washington D. C.,
Abraham Lincoln would be on a train that would stop in Westfield, and Grace
hurried to the train tracks and waited behind the crowd hoping for a glance of
the honorable Lincoln. When the train stopped, Abraham Lincoln got off the train
and asked for Grace Bedell. The crowd moved out of the way, and Grace
Bedell was kissed by the Honorable
Lincoln for the first time they met. In Westfield, New York, there is a Statues
showing this honorable moment.
When the Civil War ended Abraham Lincoln wanted to unite the states but
five days later he was shot in Fords Theater.
