Growing Up

1. Lincoln grew up in a one-room log cabin with his father, mother and sister.
2. Although he came across as an intelligent and thoughtful president, amazingly Lincoln only received 18 months of formal education!
3. Honest Abe gave his father all of his wages until he was 21.
4. He often refused to partake in hunting and fishing as he didn’t like killing animals.
5. Lincoln lived in Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana and then Illinois.
6. Lincoln was a keen reader, and always sought out new books from the villages in which he lived.
7. Throughout his teenage and young adult years, Abraham grew more and more distant from his father.
8. Some of Lincoln’s favourite books included the Bible, Robinson Crusoe and Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography.
9. At the age of 22, Abe canoed down the Sangamon River to seek a better life.
10. His journey took him to New Orleans where he witnessed slavery for the first time in his life. He then walked home!