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When Abraham Lincoln was two, the family moved to another farm on nearby Knob Creek. Life was lonely and hard. There was little time for play. Most of the day was spent hunting, farming, fishing, and doing chores. Land titles in Kentucky were confused and often subject to dispute. Thomas Lincoln lost his title to the Mill Creek farm, and his claims to both the Nolin Creek and Knob Creek tracts were challenged in court.
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In 1830, when Abraham Lincoln was 21 years old, he migrated with his father and stepmother (Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln) and her children to Macon County, Illinois. After the discouragingly hard winter of 1830-31, the Lincolns started to return to Indiana, but stopped in Coles County, Illinois, where Abraham's parents lived out the rest of their lives.
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The Abraham Lincoln Papers have an unusual processing history. They were microfilmed and indexed in 1947, the same year they were officially opened to the public for the first time. In 1959, the microfilm and index were reviewed, corrections were made to the index, and additional items were added to both film and index. The Library of Congress published the edited index to the microfilm collection in 1960. In preparing the database from the index for the online presentation of the Abraham Lincoln Papers, further corrections have been made by the editors at the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. When the Lincoln Studies Center completes its work this online presentation will contain a definitive database index of the Abraham Lincoln Papers.
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On February 11, 1865, Abraham Lincoln consented to having another life mask made of him by the sculptor Clark Mills. The process began with an application of oil over Lincoln's face, followed by the application of a thin coat of wet plaster paste that dried quickly. After fifteen minutes, Mills asked Lincoln to twitch his face, and the plaster loosened, falling off in large pieces into a cloth. The pieces were then reassembled to form the finished mask. Comparing this mask with the one done in 1860 by Leonard Volk, it is clear how great a toll the Civil War had taken on Lincoln's health. One friend who saw him a few weeks after the mask was made noted that he "looked badly and felt badly."
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Abraham Lincoln's remarkable life story began with a humble birth in a backwoods cabin near Hodgenville, KY., to a sturdy pioneer father, Thomas Lincoln, and a mother named Nancy Hanks. Thomas Lincoln moved his family to public land in southwestern Indiana when Abraham was seven years old, and there, as a squatter, he built a cabin and cleared land for farming. This pioneering family had very little in material goods. Lincoln later remembered frontier life as being "pretty pinching at times", and he recalled the "panther's scream" and the bears that "preyed on the swine".
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Abraham Lincoln was born on Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin on his father's farm in what was at that time Hardin County (today Larue County) Kentucky. His parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. He had an older sister, Sarah. In 1816, when Abraham was 7 years old, his parents moved to Perry County (later part of Spencer County) in southern Indiana, where his father bought land directly from the federal government. There, as Lincoln later described his life, he was "raised to farm work." His mother died in 1818, and his sister Sarah in childbirth in 1828.
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