Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

Lincoln became very close to his stepmother, and referred to her as " Mother ".

In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

Lincoln became an able and successful lawyer with a reputation as a formidable adversary during cross-examinations and closing arguments.

The Act had no effect on illegal practices: five clergy were imprisoned for contempt of court and after the trial of the much loved Bishop Edward King of Lincoln, it became clear that some revision of the liturgy had to be embarked upon.

That same year, he became the first non-American to receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center ’ s annual award for cinematic achievement.

In 1925 Edgerton received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln where he became a member of Acacia Fraternity.

Asked by Terre Haute politician and lawyer John Palmer Usher, future Secretary of the Interior under President Abraham Lincoln, to testify in a slander case, Cannon became fascinated with the law.

He became a follower of Abraham Lincoln during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

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.

In 1496, he became a student at Lincoln ’ s Inn, one of the Inns of Court, where he remained until 1502, when he was called to the bar.

President Lincoln again sent Charles Dana to keep a watchful eye on Grant's alleged intemperance ; Dana eventually became Grant's devoted ally, and made light of the drinking.

Upon the UNZ's demise, Canterbury Agricultural College became a constituent college of the University of Canterbury, as Lincoln College.

Lincoln College became independent in 1990 as a full university in its own right.

Garfield became a member of the Radical Republicans, led by Chase, in contrast with the moderate wing of the party, led by Lincoln and Montgomery Blair.

In 1301 at Lincoln, the young Edward became the first English prince to be invested with the title of Prince of Wales.

From 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson ( who became president on April 14, 1865 ) took a moderate position designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans ( as they called themselves ) used Congress to block the moderate approach, impose harsh terms, and upgrade the rights of the Freedmen ( former slaves ).

Upon Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who had been elected with Lincoln in 1864 as the latter's vice president, became president.

In July 1862, President Lincoln became convinced that " a military necessity " was needed to strike at slavery in order to win the Civil War for the Union.

Huddersfield Town's Iain Dunn became the first British player to settle a match in this way-his 107th-minute goal beat Lincoln City 3-2 in the Auto Windscreens Shield on 30 November 1994.

Lancaster was renamed Lincoln after President Abraham Lincoln and became the state capital in 1867.

In 1970, Ford added an antilock braking system called " Sure-track " to the rear wheels of Lincoln Continentals as an option ; it became standard in 1971.

Front disc brakes became standard equipment in 1965 on the Rambler Marlin ( the Bendix units were optional on all American Motors " senior " platform models ), the Ford Thunderbird, and the Lincoln Continental.

Abraham Lincoln consistently made preserving the Union the central goal of the war, though he increasingly saw slavery as a crucial issue and made ending it an additional goal.

As the Civil War went on, Booth increasingly quarreled with his brother Edwin, who declined to make stage appearances in the South and refused to listen to John Wilkes ' fiercely partisan denunciations of the North and Lincoln.

During the remainder of Paley's life his time was divided between Bishopwearmouth and Lincoln, during which time he wrote Natural Theology, despite his increasingly debilitating illness.

Lincoln, as well as many other leaders and citizens of the northern states, became increasingly impatient with McClellan's slowness to attack the Confederate forces still massed near Washington.

The area is becoming increasingly popular with commuters owing to its relative proximity to the nearby cities of Sheffield, Lincoln and Nottingham.

Although after 1860 he increasingly lost control of the Tribune ’ s operations, and wrote fewer editorials, in 1864 he expressed defeatism regarding Lincoln ’ s chances of reelection, an attitude that was echoed across the country when his editorials were reprinted.

With the arrival of the corporate headquarters and expensive condos of the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, and the Riverside South apartment complex built by Donald Trump, the area from 58th Street to 65th Street is increasingly referred to as Lincoln Square by realtors who acknowledge a different tone and ambiance than that typically associated with the Upper West Side.

While Lincoln pursued his increasingly successful career as a Springfield lawyer, Mary supervised their growing household.

Mrs. Lincoln's surviving son, Robert Lincoln, a rising young Chicago lawyer, was alarmed at his mother's increasingly erratic behavior.

Around 1191 Wells Cathedral and Lincoln Cathedral brought in the English Gothic style, and Norman became increasingly a modest style of provincial building.

Weik depended on Herndon for the source materials and first person accounts of Lincoln, and Herndon on Weik for the energy of creating the manuscript and increasingly for financial support, which guaranteed their continued relationship.

The title of Duke of Newcastle is extinct since 1988 ; however the title of Earl of Lincoln is still extant within the family due to a very distant relative, while the Barony of Ogle is in abeyance, as there is more than one person who has a legal right to claim the title.

Mordecai Lincoln, a distant relative of Abraham Lincoln presided over the nuptials.

He was the brother-in-law of Manning Force, and a distant cousin married the sister of Mary Todd Lincoln.

In 1864, Andrew wrote a letter to his close friend and distant cousin President Abraham Lincoln describing a woman named Lydia Bixby who lost five sons in battle and asking Lincoln to express his condolences.

Various bus services to Lincoln, Boston, Skegness, Horncastle, Alford and Spalding with onward connections to more distant locations are provided by:

Before going to college, he spent three months in Lincoln with Ezra Ripley, a distant relative who was also an uncle by marriage to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

While Lincoln was married to Mary Todd from November 4, 1842, until his death on April 15, 1865, and fathered four children with her, psychologist C. A. Tripp has observed that Lincoln's problematic and distant relationship with women stood in contrast to his more warm relations with a number of men in his life and that two of those relationships had possible homosexual overtones.

In 1989, on the death of the last Duke of Newcastle, a very distant patrilineal cousin, he inherited the ancient Earldom of Lincoln.

Consequently, on a clear day, excellent views can be seen of nearby Chesterfield with its famous Crooked Spire, Bolsover Castle, Hardwick Hall, some suburbs of the South Yorkshire city of Sheffield, the surrounding counties of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and, if the atmospheric conditions are right, it is possible to observe Lincoln Cathedral, around distant, with a telescope.