America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, on this day in history, Feb. 12, 1809. Lincoln grew up in a poor family, the son of a Kentucky frontiersman — and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States and was known as “The Great Emancipator,” is Sunday, Feb. 12. According to History.com, ...

This speech is almost as easily recognizable as the man who wrote it. Abraham Lincoln, born in Illinois on February 12, 1809, is one of the most beloved presidents (if you aren’t a Confederate ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Folksy, melancholy Abraham Lincoln would have been dumbfounded by the fuss over his birthday Thursday. Bells tolled, wreaths were laid, speeches intoned and banjos picked to mark ...

The two greatest men born in the 19th century share Feb. 12, 1809, as their birthday. Abraham Lincoln, considered by many historians as our greatest president, was born in Kentucky, but at the age of ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky on this day 205 years ago: Feb. 12, 1809. Just not this one-room log cabin. Yet this is the cabin enshrined in a formal memorial at the ...

On Nov 6th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president. And the rest is history.