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.

By the end of 1863, at Lincoln's direction, General Lorenzo Thomas had recruited 20 regiments of blacks from the Mississippi Valley.

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.

President Lincoln's father was also a Thomas Lincoln ( 1778-1851 ).

Abraham Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln married Nancy Hanks in 1806 in Washington County, Kentucky.

President Abraham Lincoln's half third cousin, Thomas Lincoln ( 1780 – 1844 ), lived in the Meshack Creek area of present day Monroe County and served two terms as constable of Cumberland County in 1802 and 1804.

Examples of his history pictures are The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan, executed in 1736 – 1737 for St Bartholomew's Hospital ; Moses brought before Pharaoh's Daughter, painted for the Foundling Hospital ( 1747, formerly at the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now in the Foundling Museum ); Paul before Felix ( 1748 ) at Lincoln's Inn ; and his altarpiece for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol ( 1756 ).

There are similarities with the arms of Lincoln College, Oxford, where one of the elements consists of three golden stags statant ( standing still ); this was derived from the coat of arms of Lincoln's so-called " second founder ", Thomas Rotherham.

Thomas Betterton and the Management of Lincoln's Inn Fields 1695 – 1708.

Thomas Betterton and the Management of Lincoln's Inn Fields 1695 – 1708.

* George Granville's The Jew of Venice, an adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, receives its première at Lincoln's Inn Fields, with Thomas Betterton as Bassanio.

The Duke's Company had recently moved from the Salisbury Court Theatre to the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, where they were joined by Thomas Betterton ; Pepys praises Betterton's Hamlet as " beyond imagination.

Immediately after Lincoln's election in November 1860, he wrote to his brother, Thomas Hunt Morgan, then a student at Kenyon College in northern Ohio, " Our State will not I hope secedeI have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good President at least we ought to give him a fair trial & then if he commits some overt act all the South will be a unit.

Thanks to the patronage of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, who gave Murray £ 200 a year to live on, Murray could afford to study at the bar, and became a member of Lincoln's Inn on 23 April 1724.

Lincoln's ancestors were among those who first settled in Hingham, beginning with Thomas Lincoln ' the cooper ,' who was among several Lincolns who settled in Hingham when it was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Among the pallbearers at Lincoln's funeral were John Adams, Cotton Tufts, Robert Treat Paine, Richard Cranch and Thomas Melvill.

The leader of the oppositionafter Lincoln's death the year beforewas now Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.

Thomas of Lancaster, who was Lincoln's son-in-law and heir, was the king's cousin and the wealthiest nobleman in the realm, but at this point he took a less active part in the reform movement.

For a friend like Thomas Hudson he was willing to sculpt figures of Painting and Sculpture to ornament a marble chimneypiece in Hudson's house in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

The collection contains many rare exhibits including John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers ' bicycle shop, and the Rosa Parks bus.

It was laid out in 1872 on the site of Thomas Lincoln's farm.

He has debated Robert Bork on American constitutionalism, and, in 2002, he and libertarian Thomas DiLorenzo debated the merits of Abraham Lincoln's statesmanship during the Civil War.

In 2002, Jaffa debated Thomas DiLorenzo, a Senior Fellow at the LvMI on the merits of Lincoln's statesmanship during the American Civil War.

Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

Young Peter Wendell, a student at the Westminster school, has measles, and his sister, Mrs. Andrew Thomas, and her husband, who live in Missoula, Mont., have a new baby.

Others listed at new addresses are the Richard T. Olerichs, the Joseph Aderholds Jr., the Henri De La Chapelles, the John Berteros and Dr. and Mrs. Egerton Crispin, the John Armisteads, the Allen Chases, the Howard Lockies, the Thomas Lockies, and Anthony Longinotti.

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

In September 2011, it was announced that the new president, Thomas DiBenedetto, had reached an agreement with the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, to have the new stadium completed by 2016.

President Grover Cleveland appointed Thomas M. Cooley, a railroad ally, as its first chairman and a permit system was used to deny access to new entrants and legalize price fixing.

In 1636, Harvard College was founded by the colony to train ministers and the new town was chosen for its site by Thomas Dudley.

He was also creating new cartoons for the Internet based on his new character, Thomas Timberwolf.

His new production company became an autonomous production unit partner in Triangle Film Corporation along with Thomas Ince and Keystone Studios ' Mack Sennett ; the Triangle Film Corporation was headed by Griffith's partner Harry Aitken, who was released from the Mutual Film Corporation, and his brother Roy.

* James Stewart as Thomas Jefferson " Tom " Destry, Jr., the new deputy

However many new approaches have appeared in recent years, especially by such scholars as Wilda Anderson, Kurt Ballstadt, Daniel Brewer, Jay Caplan, Andrew Clark, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Rosalina de la Carrera, Julie Candler Hays, Thomas M. Kavanagh, Walter Rex, and Pierre Saint-Amand.

* 1877 – Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting " Mary Had a Little Lamb ".

The location of his house in Lower Street is marked with a plaque, although the building itself was demolished ( and elements incorporated into local architect Thomas Lidstone's house on Ridge Hill ) in the 19th century to make way for a new road which was named after Newcomen.

However, by 1985, several company business decisions, including an awkward new breakfast menu and loss in brand awareness due to fizzled marketing efforts, caused the company ’ s new president to urge Thomas back into a more active role with Wendy's.

Between 1780 and 1783 Allen participated, along with his brother Ira, Vermont Governor Thomas Chittenden, and others, in negotiations with Frederick Haldimand, the governor of Quebec, that were ostensibly about prisoner exchanges, but were really about establishing Vermont as a new British province and gaining military protection for its residents.

A literary interest in the popular ballad was not new ; it dates back to Thomas Percy and William Wordsworth.

The new King Christian III gave the German trader Thomas Köppen exclusive trading rates in the Faroes.

Another new major producing company formed during the war years was Triangle, with Mack Sennett, D. W. Griffith and Thomas Ince heading its production units.

The new footage was directed by Thomas Montgomery and shot in three days.

In 1750 the English astronomer Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that the galaxy might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars held together by gravitational forces, akin to the solar system but on a much larger scale.

In 1750 Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that Milky Way was a flattened disk of stars, and that some of the nebulae visible in the night sky might be separate Milky Ways.