Abraham Lincoln from Poverty to become the U.S President and his achievements and awards
How Abraham Lincoln setup from poverty to become the U.S president. Born on Wednesday 12th of February 1809. Abraham Lincoln was a man who grew successful where others failed, who led bravely with others shook in their boots.
He was known as the Rail Splitter. Who rose from poor humble origins to walk courage of power in the white house. In today’s blog over looking at the life of Abraham Lincoln.
To use his life story to inspire young people who may be discouraged about life. We hope this blog gives you the courage you need. To believe in yourself and pursue your biggest dreams.
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EARLY YEARS OF FRONTIER LIFE:
Once Lincoln turned seven. He was deemed old enough to help his father Thomas Lincoln the farm and raise livestock. In those frontier lands of Kentucky, nobody prayed for an easy life. Only the strength to endure, an endure Lincoln did.
Day after day soon even he drew to dislike the physical labor of farming and hunting. But it could not be helped since the needs of the family came first, his only consolation was returning home to rest his head on the warm laps of his mother Nancy Hanks.
While his elder sister Sarah first over him that same year in 1816, things went from bad to worse. Lincoln learned his father had lost his farming land to legal disputes. Disputes Lincoln’s father could not afford for a simple farmer and a Lincoln who had been less prosperous than his predecessors.
MILK SICKNESS:
The only option left was moving up north to Indiana. Where land disputes were far and few and no slaves to stain the Lincoln’s family religious beliefs. A stomachs juggled farming cabinetmaking than other odd jobs to get the family welfare as they squatted on public land.
Lincoln himself did whatever he could, to help tend the farm and livestock. Lincoln was nine, when his mother passed the epidemic of milk sickness had claimed her life.
Though his 11 years old sister Sarah took charge of the house. Lincoln had to spend winter for once without the special warmth of his mother’s love. No matter how warm the fire had been through those nights, they could not for the bitterness within his heart.
A NEW MOTHER:
It took a year until Lincoln’s father remarried a widow with three children. And a namesake of Lincoln’s oldest sister Sarah Bush Johnston. Sarah treated Lincoln his sisters as one of her own. So much that Lincoln believed that God had sent an angel to take care of them.
Thomas overcame their shaky financial situation enough that he bought the very land that they they squatted on.
EDUCATION:
During this period what education Lincoln received lasted less than a year. It was his first taste of literacy. In those months of learning little by little, Lincoln lost lost himself in books.
He learned mostly by himself and from other to. What he lacked in quantity of books, he made for in quality in in all forms. The King James Bible, Aesop’s Fables, John Bunyan’s ,the pilgrims progress, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of Washington and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin among others.
While his father became annoyed with Lincoln for not putting his back into work. Lincoln’s stepmother defended him and supported his self-education wholeheartedly
SECOND MIGRATION:
In 1831, the fear of further milk sickness incidents forced the Lincoln family to migrate west to Illinois. Now 22 years old Lincoln stood head and shoulders about most men.
If he wasn’t helping his father in his new farm. Lincoln will be performing several jobs. Among them a Rail Splitter, split in log to build fences and a flattened boatman paddle in between the Mississippi River and New Orleans.
Until one day, Lincoln pond unto himself is this how the rest of his life was going to be. Juggling jobs like his father had done.
A MAJOR DECISION:
Thus upon his return to Illinois, Lincoln decided on settling in the village of the New Salem's. A chance to put some distance between himself and his father, Lincoln cast aside his axes for pen and paper.
He worked as a storekeeper, a postmaster in New Salem's. This jobs were only his first step crushing from the farm life into a whole new bustling world.
ATTEMPTING A NEW LIFE:
In 1832, Lincoln’s first attempts at a new life for himself failed, and his general store in New Salem's fizzled out. Despite a growing economy, Lincoln did not start any other business thereafter. Instead he decided to enter politics more precisely the Illinois General Assembly.
With powerful voice and careful words, Lincoln’s campaign commanded the attention of most people. But that attention did not be a fruit in the elections. He lost woefully, how could he have been so naive to think he’d win with no wells to his name. Of friends in high places who could vouch for him.
All he had was his grit and wit. To people he could talk to talk but could he walk to walk. If that was so then all he needed to do was to learn to walk to walk. So Lincoln went back reading as much he could.
If he was entering the legislation, knowledge of the laws would help. He decided on becoming a lawyer and taught himself law by reading several law books. In the Illinois legislation eventually Lincoln’s effort paid off.
In 1834, Lincoln succeeded in his second campaign under the week party and served in the Illinois House of representatives for four terms. In 1836, Lincoln’s admittance into Illinois low bar was confirmed. Which allowed him to begin practicing law.
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS:
In the village of New Salem's lived a woman named Ann Rutledge. As of 1835, and in Lincoln engaged in relationship. But were not engaged yet.
Faith as it appears would not let Lincoln obtain happiness. Within that same year and died from the outbreak of typhoid fever that hit New Salem's. Her death hit Lincoln so hard, not even his friends nor his books helped him escape the reality.
His first love had left him. Buried before the sowed seeds of their relationship. Later in the following year he met his second love interest by the name of Mary Owens.
But things wee not meant to be. The third time had to be the charm for Lincoln. Because in 1840 became engaged to one Mary Todd Lincoln would end up married in 1842 in Springfield.
The fact that Mary was the young daughter of an upper-class family from Kentucky with a width to match did not deter Lincoln, not did it deter Mary from accepting courtship from a man who qualified as barely middle-class. And beneath her.
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATE:
Lincoln now the face of the Republican Party meant they stood united against the expansion of slavery. Such news rouse the fear of a southern states, who threatened to secede from the union should Lincoln win the presidential race.
This did not deter Lincoln, who emerge president of the U.S and the first Republican president in 1860.
ASSASSINATION:
Five years in a civil war later, in 1865 Lincoln and his wife found themselves settling into an era of peace. As they attended a play at Ford’s Theater until a gun shot echoed from the balcony.
Mary screamed as a husband’s body toppled over. Smoke wafted from the barrel of a small gun held by one John Wilkes Booth an actor and a confederate sympathizer.
Though booths escaped on horseback. No amount of speed could save Lincoln from the head shot and show the President of the United States died the next morning on April 15, 1865.
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