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 ).

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.

In 1831, Thomas relocated the family to a new homestead in Coles County, Illinois.

So it was that New Castle lawyer Thomas McKean denounced the Stamp Act in the strongest terms, and Kent County native John Dickinson became the " Penman of the Revolution.

Thomas ' home in Laugharne, the Boathouse, is a museum run by Carmarthenshire County Council.

Both the Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal had Irish prime ministers: Sir Thomas Upington, " The Afrikaner from Cork "; and Sir Albert Hime, from Kilcoole in County Wicklow.

Two years later, Davis entered the Catholic school of Saint Thomas at St. Rose Priory, a school operated by the Dominican Order in Washington County, Kentucky.

Dr. Thomas Blass of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County performed a meta-analysis on the results of repeated performances of the experiment.

Mitchell's family on her father's side were descendants of Thomas Mitchell, originally of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1777, and served in the American Revolutionary War.

Lee was born in Westmoreland County to Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell Lee on January 20, 1732.

In 1826 the family moved to Abington, County Limerick, where Le Fanu's father Thomas took up his second rectorship in southern Ireland.

The third of ten children, Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 ( April 2, 1743 OS ) at the family home in Shadwell, Goochland County, Virginia, now part of Albemarle County.

Thomas McKean ( March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817 ) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Marshall's paternal grandfather, Riley Marshall, immigrated to Indiana in 1817 and settled on a farm in what is now Whitley County.

* Churton Town, the Orange County, North Carolina county seat laid out in 1754, is renamed Childsburgh in honor of North Carolina attorney general Thomas Child.

Late on the night of August 15, Stark was awakened by the arrival of Parson Thomas Allen and a band of Massachusetts militiamen from nearby Berkshire County who insisted on joining his force.

Cook County Assessor Thomas Hynes ( Chicago First Party ), a Daley ally, dropped out of the race 36 hours before the mayoral general election.

The Borough of County Line in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania changed its name to Telford in 1857, after the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company named its new station there " Telford " in honour of Thomas Telford.

On September 6, 1776, the Maryland Constitutional Convention agreed to a proposal introduced by Thomas Sprigg Wootton wherein Frederick County, the largest and most populous county in Maryland, would be divided into three smaller units.

* In 1965, Berton Roueché described his wonderful trip along the Green River that set out from the Circle S Ranch in Cora, Wyoming in Subletter County with the ranch's foreman Thomas Scholebo.

William Holland Thomas, a white store owner and state legislator from Jackson County, North Carolina, helped over 600 Cherokee from Qualla Town obtain North Carolina citizenship, which exempted them from forced removal.

The County was named for Anne Arundell, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, members of the ancient family of Arundells in Cornwall, England.

The standard DuPont Mammoth powder developed by Thomas Rodman and Lammot du Pont for use during the American Civil War had grains averaging 0. 6 inches diameter, with edges rounded in a glazing barrel.

It was Thomas Young who in 1813 first used the term Indo-European, which became the standard scientific term through the work of Franz Bopp, whose systematic comparison of these and other old languages supported the theory.

The standard " Olympic Distance " of 1. 5 / 40 / 10 km (. 93 / 24. 8 / 6. 2 miles ) was created by long time triathlon race director Jim Curl in the mid-1980s, after he and partner Carl Thomas produced the U. S. Triathlon Series ( USTS ) between 1982 and 1997.

As a result of the American Revolution, John Wesley was compelled in 1784 to break with standard practice and ordain two of his lay preachers as presbyters ( Thomas Vasey and Richard Whatcoat.

In Scandinavia Thomas Bartholin and Ole Worm, the 17th century Danish scholars and Olaf Rudbeck in Sweden were the first to set the standard for using runic inscriptions and Icelandic Sagas as historical sources.

In Scandinavia, the 17th century Danish scholars Thomas Bartholin and Ole Worm, and the Swede Olof Rudbeck were the first to set the standard for using runic inscriptions and Icelandic sagas as historical sources.

When the French Government first investigated the idea of overhauling their system of measurement, Talleyrand, in the late 1780s, acting on Concordet's advice, invited Riggs, a British Parliamentarian and Thomas Jefferson, the American Secretary of State to George Washington, to work with the French in producing an international standard by promoting legislation in their respective legislative bodies.

Thomas E. Dewey and His Times ( 1984 ), the standard scholarly biography

One says that TAG is not a distinctive form of argument: this objection claims that the form of the TAG ( indirect, transcendental ) is really just a reworking of the standard deductive and inductive forms of reasoning ; it claims that there is really not much difference between Thomas Aquinas and Cornelius Van Til.

* Jureit, Jan-H., Thomas Krajewski, Thomas Schücker, and Christoph A. Stephan ( 2007 ) " On the noncommutative standard model ," Acta Phys.

Inspired by Islamic philosophers Avicenna and Averroes, Aristotelian philosophy became part of a standard approach to all legal and ethical discussion in Europe by the time of Thomas Aquinas.

The castle had a very high standard of masonry, comfort and design, and was likely intended to house Earl Thomas and his entire retinue.

At Admiral John Jellicoe's request, the standard Mark II mine was fitted with a hydrostatic pistol ( developed in 1914 by Thomas Firth and Sons of Sheffield ) preset for firing, to be launched from a stern platform.

Thomas Strutz wrote a passion ( 1664 ) with arias for Jesus himself, pointing to the standard oratorio tradition of Schütz, Carissimi, and others, although these composers seem to have thought that putting words in Jesus ’ mouth was beyond the pale.

As with the Reports, Coke's Institutes became a standard textbook in the United States, and were recorded in the law libraries of Harvard College in 1723 and Brown University in 1770 ; John Jay, John Adams, Theophilus Parsons and Thomas Jefferson were all influenced by it.

It appears that around this time the line was under the control of Thomas Savin, the contractor who built the standard gauge lines in the area.

In The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America ’ s Wealthy ( 1996 ) Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko reviewed the traditional definition of conspicuous consumption, wherein the examination of the style of life of rich Americans indicated that most tended to economic frugality and practiced a modest standard of living.

* Head, David M. Ebbs & Flows of Fortune: The Life of Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk ( 1995 ), 360pp ; the standard scholarly biography

* Head, David M. Ebbs & Flows of Fortune: The Life of Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk ( 1995 ), 360pp ; the standard scholarly biography

Politicians and politics were standard dinner-table topics in Bradley's childhood, and he described his father as a " solid Republican " who was an elector for Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.

Aristotle was the first to articulate an ethical understanding of common good, followed by Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas who developed the concept into standard moral theology.

This work was later augmented, illustrated and revised by Thomas Bartholin, becoming the standard reference on anatomy ; the son notably added updates on Harvey's theory of blood circulation and on the lymphatic system.

A society of scholars was formed in Edinburgh to " vindicate that incomparably learned and pious author from the calumnies of Mr Thomas Ruddiman "; but Ruddiman's remains the standard edition, though George Logan, John Love, John Man and others attacked him with vehemence.