Abraham Lincoln Born: 2/12/1809 Birthplace: Larue County, Ky. Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin (now Larue) County, Ky., on Feb. 12, 1809. His family moved to Indiana and then to Illinois, and Lincoln gained what education he could along the way. While reading law, he worked in a store, managed a mill, surveyed, and split rails. In 1834, he went to the Illinois legislature as a Whig and became the party's floor leader. For the next 20 years he practiced …showed first 75 words of 686 total…

…showed last 75 words of 686 total… mourners lined the tracks as his funeral train moved him from Washington to his final resting place in Springfield, Illinois. Newspaper publisher Horace Greeley said of Lincoln: "He slowly won his way to eminence and fame doing the work that lay next to him -- doing it with all his growing might -- doing it as well as he could, and learning by his failure, when failure was encountered, how to do it better."