A postcard in Jack Hiddlestone's collection shows the missing monument to President Abraham Lincoln as it stood in the Nay Aug Park in Scranton, Pa.
A postcard in Jack Hiddlestone's collection shows the missing monument to President Abraham Lincoln...
EMDEN - Floyd Edward Hayes, 96, Emden, recently of the Christian Village, Lincoln, died Thursday (July 3, 2008) at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at St. Peter's Lutheran Church,...
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/143742
How's this for a coincidence? Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born in the same year, on the same day: Feb. 12, 1809. As historical facts go, it amounts to little more than...
When did you come here?
I came here in 1981.
I came from Nigeria. About 200 miles east of Lagos.
What brought you here?
I had just finished high school and was a teenager -- an idealistic teenager -- but very independent. I had always wanted, based...
Background
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest crisis, the Civil War, only to be assassinated less than a month after the war's end. Before his election as President, Lincoln was a lawyer, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln's death and was ratified by the states later in 1865.
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