Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

Canoeing down the Sangamon River, Lincoln ended up in the village of New Salem in Sangamon County.

* 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

* 1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

In 1851 John went to an academy at Pittsfield in Pike County, where he met an older student, John G. Nicolay, with whom he would later work as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln.

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To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

( It is sort of as if our government should decide to disown Washington or Lincoln for the same reason.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

Similarly in Illinois there is Lincoln country to be seen -- his tomb and other landmarks.

A most revealing recent case is Textile Workers Union v. Lincoln Mills.

`` The pattern '', says Dr. Morton Schillinger, psychologist at New York's Lincoln Institute for Psychotherapy, `` is for the husband to hover about anxiously and eagerly, virtually trembling in his hope that she will flash him the signal that tonight is the night ''.

Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.

The idea was never commercialized, but Lincoln is the only president to hold a patent.

" In response to an inquiry about his presidential intentions, Lincoln said, " The taste is in my mouth a little.

Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems, long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.

Famous in his own time for his perceived ugliness, Abraham Lincoln was described by a contemporary: " to say that he is ugly is nothing ; to add that his figure is grotesque, is to convey no adequate impression.

Lincoln Park is a park stretching for along the waterfront and containing the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Lincoln Park Conservatory.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

There is an early example of the 12th century in Lincoln ; in France the metal work of the doors of Notre Dame at Paris is perhaps the most beautiful in execution, but examples are endless throughout France and England.

* 1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

In his journal for November 6, 1860, he wrote: " At Town House, and cast my vote for Lincoln and the Republican candidates generally — the first vote I ever cast for a President and State officers.

Villa Park's boundaries are best described as Santiago Boulevard, which generally runs north-south, eastward to Santiago Creek and Cannon Street ( Orange ) or Imperial Highway ( Anaheim Hills ), and from Meats Avenue ( north ) southward to approximately Villa Park Road / Lincoln Avenue.

John Hay, private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State to Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, was born in Salem and is generally known as Salem's most prominent citizen.

The main downtown area is generally defined as the six-block area between Sawyer, Lincoln, Bay, and Main Street, with Newman Street serving as the main thoroughfare.

Lincoln County Medical Center was established in Troy in 1953 under the federal Hill-Burton Memorial Hospitals Act, as Lincoln County Memorial Hospital, and has generally been the largest employer in the city.

The rest of Lincoln County has generally leaned Republican, and heavily favored Republican John McCain in the 2008 election.

The smaller and more northeasterly Humboldt National Forest is located generally in eastern and northern Nevada, in parts of Elko, White Pine, Humboldt, Nye, and Lincoln counties.

A black 15 ¢ stamp depicting the recently-assassinated Abraham Lincoln was issued in 1866, and is generally considered part of the same series.

Shays led the rebel force generally north and east to avoid Lincoln, eventually establishing a camp at Petersham ; along the way they raided the shops of local merchants for supplies, taking some of them hostage.

The other, Boston United are the closest professional club to Lincoln and are generally considered to be the clubs main rivals, however both clubs have dropped out of the Football League in recent seasons meaning the county now has no representative clubs in the professional leagues.

These three clubs compete in the Humber Derby between themselves, generally meaning supporters view that as their natural local derby as opposed to playing against Lincoln City.

While the system has inherent advantages over steel springs, generally recognized in the auto industry, it also has a perceived element of complexity, so automakers like Mercedes-Benz, British Leyland ( Hydrolastic, Hydragas ), and Lincoln have sought to create simpler variants using a compressed air suspension.

In a charter generally thought to date to 1135, King Henry I granted the Bishop of Lincoln permission to build a castle.

It continues generally west-southwestward through the Siuslaw National Forest, turning west again to enter the Pacific near Cascade Head, about north of Lincoln City.

The river flows generally west-northwest in a winding course through the mountains of southern Benton and Lincoln counties, passing near the unincorporated community of Tidewater and through the Siuslaw National Forest.

The NRSC generally avoids supporting Republicans in primaries against other party members, though the 2006 Rhode Island Senate primary between Lincoln Chafee and mayor of Cranston Steve Laffey is a notable exception.

It flows southeast, then generally south across the Lincoln Plateau.

For east and west streets and streets running in a generally east and west direction the base line is State Street from the southern city boundary line to North Avenue, thence extended by an imaginary line through Lincoln Park and Lake Michigan.

It runs next to the Potomac River and Rock Creek in a generally north – south direction, carrying four lanes of traffic from the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Memorial Bridge north to a junction with Beach Drive near Connecticut Avenue at Calvert Street, N. W., just south of the National Zoological Park.

The stream flows off the Coteau in northeastern Lincoln County, dropping 250 feet ( 75 m ) in five miles ( 8 km ), and turns east-northeastwardly, following a generally treeless course on till plains through northern Lyon County and eastern Yellow Medicine County, past Hanley Falls.

In policy debate ( and less commonly in Lincoln – Douglas debates ), a kritik ( derived from German Kritik, meaning critique and traditionally pronounced as " critique ", and often abbreviated K ) is generally a type of argument that challenges a certain mindset, assumption, or discursive element that exists within the advocacy of the opposing team, often from the perspective of critical theory ; it is often spelled in the normal English critique or is sometimes called a criticism, and takes the adjective form kritikal ( meaning and pronounced as " critical ").

Sources generally agree that the first shots were fired by Private William Walter Grayson, a British citizen who had immigrated to America c. 1890, had enlisted as a volunteer soldier in Lincoln, Nebraska, in May 1898, a month after the Spanish-American War erupted, and had deployed with his unit to the Philippines in June 1898.

The Lincoln Cliff is the portion of a major escarpment that runs north-south through Lindsey and Kesteven, in central Lincolnshire and is a prominent landscape feature in a generally flat portion of the county.