Abraham Lincoln papers, 1774-1948

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Biographical Note

Date	Event
1809, Feb. 12	Born, Hardin Co., now LaRue Co., Ky.
1815-1816	Attended occasional classes in rural schoolhouse
1816	Moved with family to Indiana
1819-1820	Additional schooling
1819-1830	Laborer on family farm and for neighbors
1828	Ferryman, Ohio River; helped take a flatboat cargo from Indiana to New Orleans, La.
1830	Moved with family to Illinois
1831	Helped build a flatboat and ferried cargo from Sangamon County, Ill., to New Orleans, La. Clerk, general store, New Salem, Ill.
1832	Elected captain, Thirty-first Regiment, Illinois Militia, in the Black Hawk War Defeated in election for a seat in the Illinois General Assembly
1832-1836	Shopkeeper, surveyor, and postmaster in New Salem, Ill.
1834	Elected as Whig candidate from Sangamon County to the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly Began to read law
1836-1842	Reelected for three additional terms, Sangamon County representative, Illinois General Assembly
1837	Admitted to the Illinois bar Moved to Springfield to become law partner with John T. Stuart in the firm of Stuart & Lincoln
1841	Partnership of Stuart & Lincoln dissolved Partnership established with Stephen T. Logan in the law firm of Logan & Lincoln, Springfield, Ill.
1842	Married Mary Todd
1844	Formed law partnership with William H. Herndon in the firm of Lincoln & Herndon, Springfield, Ill.
1847	Elected as Whig candidate from Illinois to the United States House of Representatives
1849	Resumed law practice, Springfield, Ill.
1855	Unsuccessful Whig candidate in Illinois for United States Senate
1856	Joined the Republican party
1858	Unsuccessful Republican candidate in Illinois for United States Senate
1861-1865	President and commander-in-chief of the United States during the Civil War
1863, Jan. 1	Issued Emancipation Proclamation
1863, Nov. 19	Delivered Gettysburg address
1865, Apr. 15	Died the morning after being shot, Washington, D.C.