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The Lincolns lived in Indiana for a period of fourteen years. Abraham was raised on hard farm work and hunting. He grew strong and very tall. He was "in height, six feet, four inches, nearly weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds;
he had black hair, gray eyes." To support the poor family, Thomas Lincoln kept Abraham busy at farm work until Abraham was twenty-two years old.
In the year of 1830, the Lincolns decided to leave the state of Indiana, because they hoped of a better future and moved to the state of Illinois. Abraham settled in the town of New Salem, Illinois, where he began his education by studying English grammar, mathematics, and literature. Abraham Lincoln"tms desire to learn and his honesty impressed the people that soon he come to social and political reputation. He did several jobs to support himself; ferryman, rail-splitter, store clerk and store-owner, captain of militia in the Black Hawk war, and postmaster. Just two years after he was in New Salem, the twenty-five year old Abraham was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1834. In addition, he was reelected in 1836, 1838, and 1840. Abraham"tms greatest achievement in the legislatur
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least some schooling to "read and write."
In 1842, Abraham Lincoln married a young 20-year-old woman when he was 30. Abraham married Mary Tod from Kentucky and married in Springfield, Illinois. According to Dougherty, arthur, Mary Todd was a woman with an excellent education. Of their four children Robert, Tad, Willie, And Edward, only Robert lived to adulthood. Even though Abraham had a hard time living with Mary, the marriage was generally happy. Abraham Lincoln says in a quote, ""My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I... fell in love with her; and what is mor, I have never fallen out.""tm
Four years after the marriage, Lincoln was elected to the United States congress, serving only one less than successful term in the Houses of representatives until 1849. In the Election of 1860, friends began to urge Lincoln to run for president. He held back, but he did extend his range of speech making beyond Illinois. On February 27, 1860, at Cooper Union, in New York, Abraham delivered and address on the need for restricting slavery that put him in the forefront of Republican Leadership. On February 11, 1861, Lincoln left Springfield to take up his duties as President. The
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