Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

* Abraham Lincoln's birthday: February 12, United States

Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history.

Adams became a leading opponent of slave power and articulated a theory whereby the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a correct prediction of Abraham Lincoln's use of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Abraham Lincoln's law office was next door to the law office of Milton Hay, John's uncle, and Lincoln thus became acquainted with John Hay.

* John Hay, Abraham Lincoln's Friend

In 2011, an 1866 letter written by William Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law partner, was auctioned off for US $ 30, 000.

over the dead of the Peloponnesian War ; Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863, soon after Sojourner Truth's identification of racial problem in " Ain't I a Woman?

After reading to his staff Abraham Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby, Marshall orders that Ryan be found and sent home immediately.

Virginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers.

* July 7 – Following Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, the four conspirators condemned to death during the trial are hanged, including David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Payne and Mary Surratt.

* September 17 – Abraham Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.

After Abraham Lincoln's election, Garfield was more inclined to arms than negotiations, saying, " Other states may arm to the teeth, but if Ohio so much as cleans her rusty muskets, it is said to have offended our brethren in the South.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

Abraham Lincoln's attempt to finance his own 1858 Senate run bankrupted him, even though he had arranged a number of $ 500 expense accounts from wealthy donors.

Burton returned to Hollywood to star in Prince of Players, another historical Cinemascope film, this time concerning Edwin Booth, famous American actor and brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth.

* Abraham Lincoln's Eulogy of Henry Clay at Teaching American History. Org

Pinkerton's role in foiling the assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln was dramatized in the 2012 film Saving Lincoln, which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who also served as his primary bodyguard during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege solemnly proceeded along Pennsylvania Avenue in 1865 ; only weeks later the end of the American Civil War was celebrated when the Army of the Potomac paraded more joyously along the avenue.

They chose to juxtapose Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address with that of Confederate president Jefferson Davis ; they debated removing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and labor-leader César Chávez and rejected calls to include more Hispanic figures, in spite of the high Hispanic population in the state.

The first public memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington D. C. was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln's assassination.

He returned to Bloomington where he wrote for the family newspaper, The Daily Pantagraph, which was founded by his maternal great grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who had also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager in his 1858 race for the US Senate.

In contrast to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten Percent Plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each Southern state to take the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy.

On Route 53 in Clay County there is a Tennessee historical marker perpetuating the falsehood of Hananiah Lincoln as the paternal grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln.

After naming the main characters after his own family members ( except for Bart, an anagram of " brat ", which he substituted for his own name ), Groening refused to name Grampa after his grandfather, Abraham Groening.

He left it to the writers to choose a name and they chose " Abraham ", not knowing that it was also the name of Groening's grandfather.

In the autumn of 1779, a large party of immigrants came with him, including ( according to tradition ) the family of Abraham Lincoln's grandfather.

State Senator Robert Lansing ( 1799 – 1878 ) was his grandfather ; Chancellor John Lansing, Jr. and State Treasurer Abraham G. Lansing were his great-granduncles.

Fahrid Murray Abraham ( born October 24, 1939 ) who immigrated from Syria during the 1920s famine ; his paternal grandfather was a chanter in the Syriac Orthodox Church.

In Islamic tradition Isaac is viewed as the grandfather of all Israelites and the promised son of Abraham from his barren wife Sarah.

* Abraham Simpson, Famous cartoon grandfather

His maternal grandfather was banker Abraham Wolff.

He and his grandfather Whitaker witnessed Abraham Lincoln's speech outside Independence Hall in February 1861, standing away.

Fischer came from a prominent Afrikaner family ; his father was Percy Fischer, a Judge President of the Orange Free State, and his grandfather was Abraham Fischer, a prime minister of the Orange River Colony and later a member of the cabinet of the unified South Africa.

Prior to studying at Oxford University ( New College ) as a Rhodes scholar during the 1930s, he was schooled at Grey College and Grey University College in Bloemfontein, he was a resident of House Abraham Fischer which is named after his grandfather Abraham Fischer.

Stevenson is authot of The Black Book which records American history and his politics as his family knew it over five generations, starting with his great great grandfather Jesse Fell who was Abraham Lincoln's patron.

Leiter was born to Anne ( née Ziegler ) and Joseph Thomas Leiter, of Leitersburg, the Washington County, Maryland, town founded by his grandfather, Abraham Leiter.

His maternal grandfather, Abraham Rubshevsky, fought in World War II for the Red Army, and was injured 11 times.

* As a teacher in the state-sponsored schools for Jews, where he taught and influenced two founders of Yiddish literature: Mendele Mocher Sforim, whom Sholom Aleichem called " the zeyde ( grandfather ) of us all ", and Abraham Goldfaden, the founder of the professional Yiddish theater.

According to a manuscript in the possession of the Alliance Israélite Universelle containing those parts of Abraham Zacuto's Sefer Yuḥasin that are omitted in Samuel Shullam's edition, Moses was descended from a Narbonne family distinguished for its erudition, his great-grandfather, Abun, his grandfather, Moses ben Abun, and his father, Jacob ben Moses ben Abun ( called " ha-Navi "), all having been presidents of the Narbonne yeshivah.

Her grandfather, Abraham Reister Wright, was an architect of the LDS Church's Salt Lake Tabernacle.

He was also the grandfather of Abraham, Nahor II and Haran, all descendants of Shem.

At about the same time, a young wheelwright named Jacob Wheeler ( Matthew Settle ) is growing discontented with his settled life in the fictional Wheelerton, Virginia, where he and his brothers work as wheelwrights for his grandfather Abraham, a veteran of the Battle of Yorktown.

Mumir Shah, the imam of the mosque, condemned the London bombings at Friday prayers a day after the attacks, telling worshippers " that all human beings are brothers because of our grandfather, Adam ( reported elsewhere as Abraham )" and that the message of Islam is one of " peace and friendship.