Lincoln later noted that this move was " partly on account of slavery " but mainly due to land title difficulties.

In later years, Lincoln occasionally loaned his father money.

Lincoln served as New Salem's postmaster and later as county surveyor, all the while reading voraciously.

Lincoln later regretted some of his statements, especially his attack on the presidential war-making powers.

Days later, when that city fell, Lincoln visited the vanquished Confederate capital ; as he walked through the city, white Southerners were stone-faced, but freedmen greeted him as a hero.

He and Lincoln were elected in 1864, inaugurated in early 1865 and a month later Johnson assumed the presidency upon Lincoln's assassination.

The building was designed by the famed architect Wallace Harrison, who would later design the similar-looking façade of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

A month later, McLean wound up the 20th century by performing " American Pie " at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D. C. Brooks again played " American Pie " during We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

Of these, Booth remained to make his career in the States, fathering the nation's most notorious actor, John Wilkes Booth ( who later assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and its most famous Hamlet, Edwin Booth.

* 1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.

Booth and a group of co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln, but later planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward in a bid to help the Confederacy's cause.

Lincoln's sister-in-law, sitting with him in the same presidential box where he would later be slain, turned to him and said, " Mr. Lincoln, he looks as if he meant that for you.

Booth later learned that Lincoln had changed his plans at the last moment to attend a reception at the National Hotel in Washington where, coincidentally, Booth was then staying.

Other historians have been more cautious in interpreting this material, noting that chroniclers also reported John's personal interest in the life of St Wulfstan of Worcester and his friendships with several senior clerics, most especially with Hugh of Lincoln, who was later declared a saint.

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.

He and Douglas both spoke to the large audience, Douglas first and Lincoln in response two hours later.

These speeches set the stage for the Lincoln-Douglas debates four years later, during which Lincoln was running for Douglas's senate seat.

* 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.

Wesley, along with his brother, founded the Holy Club while they were at Oxford, where John was a fellow and later a lecturer at Lincoln College.

The next effort by any government to set aside such protected lands was, again, in the United States, when President Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress on June 30, 1864, ceding the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias ( later becoming the Yosemite National Park ) to the state of California:

Abraham Lincoln, for instance, terminated a treaty without prior Congressional authorization, but Congress retroactively approved his decision at a later point.

Two days later, on April 15, President Lincoln put out a call for 75, 000 volunteers.

After President Lincoln relieved Frémont from command, Grant attacked Fort Belmont taking 3, 114 Union troops by boat on November 7, 1861, and initially took the fort, but his army was later pushed back to Cairo by the reinforced Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow.

Just six years later, this new party captured the presidency when Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

He noted that Lincoln initially opposed the expansion of slavery but did not support its elimination.

Hay noted that during the speech Lincoln ’ s face had ‘ a ghastly color ’ and that he was ‘ sad, mournful, almost haggard.

In 1985 Stanislav Mikheyev and Alexei Smirnov ( expanding on 1978 work by Lincoln Wolfenstein ) noted that flavor oscillations can be modified when neutrinos propagate through matter.

The 25th Anniversary of the Lincoln Highway was noted a month later in a July 3, 1938, nationwide radio broadcast on NBC.

Most observers noted the personal animus between the bishop of Lincoln and the pope, but it did not stop the pope from agreeing to most of Grosseteste's demands about the way the English church ought to function.

Maytown is noted as the birthplace of 19th century politician Simon Cameron, who served in the Cabinet of President Abraham Lincoln.

The village of Gridley was founded in 1869 and named after General Asahel Gridley ( or Ashael Gridley ), a noted early Republican, land investor, political backer and client of Abraham Lincoln, and a descendant of a Colonel Gridley who served at the Battle of Lexington.

The noted scientist Edward Alexander Bouchet, the first African American to earn a doctorate from an American university, served as principal of the city's Lincoln High School from 1908 to 1913.

The first actors to portray Mutt and Jeff in the comedy shorts were Sam D. Drane, a tall man noted for his resemblance to President Lincoln, who actually played Lincoln in his last movie, The Crisis ( 1916 ), as A. Mutt, and Gus Alexander, whose nickname was " Shorty ," as Jeff.

The most noted musician who played with Brigode was trombonist Abe Lincoln.

He is also one of the group which founded the short-lived Lincoln Communist music venue, The Red and Black Café, in the early 1990s, a spin off to another talk program he produced with Sally Herrin, noted Lincoln author, and a number of others called " Zero Street " ( from the Allen Ginsberg poem " Wichita Vortex Sutra " in which AG called Lincoln's main drag, O Street, " Zero Street ").

* Richard Glanton ' 68, noted Philadelphia attorney, served as president of the Barnes Foundation in 1990 and was instrumental in creating a museum at Lincoln University ( Pennsylvania ) for the foundation's art collection

Daniel Chester French, the noted sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial, was the principal designer of the pediment sculptures and the monolithic 12½ foot figures along the cornice.

Prominent faculty members include noted author Robert Hellenga, psychologist of materialistic values Tim Kasser, Middle East expert Robert Seibert, Evolutionary Psychologist Frank McAndrew, noted expert on 20th century American art and director of The National Center for Midwest Art and Design Gregory Gilbert, former Supreme Court Fellow Lane Sunderland, educational psychologist / gifted education & literacy specialist Stephen T. Schroth, heterodox economist Steven Cohn and co-chairs of the Knox-based Lincoln Studies Center: Rodney Davis and Douglas L. Wilson.

As former president Dr. Horace Mann Bond noted in his book Education for Freedom: A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, with the college's founding in 1854, " This was the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for youth of African descent.

A noted Scottish performer is Joe Temperley, who has appeared with Humphrey Lyttelton as well as with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

Fisher was a noted philanthropist during his life, sitting on the boards of the New York Philharmonic and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

*" Pittsburgh as Hell with the Lid Off ", 1903, commissioned by Lincoln Steffens ( April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936 ) and noted in his autobiography

Lincoln Park was a noted amusement park in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1902 to 1930.

Born in Lincoln, Fenton grew up in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire, the son of Canon John Fenton, a noted biblical scholar.