Abraham Lincoln was born 210 years ago today, on Feb. 12, 1809, in a one-room, dirt-floor log cabin in Ho
dgenville, Kentucky. Lincoln had a harrowing childhood, punctuated by frequent moves and the deaths of his mother, older sister, and younger brother. As Lincoln told one of his first biographers, “My early life can all be condensed into a single sentence: the short and simple annals of the poor.”
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