One of the most courageous and esteemed presidents of the United States of
America, Abraham Lincoln is known mainly for abolishing slavery and his
leadership during the Civil War. He grew up in a single-room log cabin on the
Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kenrucky. His mother died when he was
nine, and his relationship with his father was often strained. He had an
insatiable desire to learn, which his stepmother nutured by encouraging young
Abe to read. Though he had only a year of formal education, he could read any
book he got his hands on. Lincoln was admitted to the Illinois bar in