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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nBefore being elected President, he was a general store owner, postmaster, a licensed bartender and a lawyer. As a lawyer, he actually lost a case before the Supreme Court in 1849. He did not have a middle name, he was an avid hunter, and was never a member of an organized church. He learned about Christianity by reading the bible.
When Abe was 9 years old, his mother, Nancy, died of a mysterious \u201cmilk sickness\u201d that swept across southern Indiana. It was later learned that the strange disease was due to drinking tainted milk from a cow that had ingested poisonous white snakeroot.\u00a0
You may note that his mother died in Indiana \u2014 even though Illinois is known as the Land of Lincoln, he didn\u2019t move there until he was 21. He was born in Kentucky (in a log cabin) but his family moved to Indiana when Abe was young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lincoln loved to tinker with machines and he is the only president to have obtained a patent. He was once aboard a steamboat that ran aground on low shoals and had to unload its cargo. After that incident, he designed a method for keeping vessels afloat when traversing shallow waters \u2014 by using empty metal air chambers attached to their sides. His design was awarded Patent No. 6,469 in 1849
.I think I\u2019ve mentioned in the past that Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame \u2014 he was an accomplished wrestler as a young man. And, when Lincoln was President, he never slept in the Lincoln Bedroom \u2014 he used the current Lincoln Bedroom as his personal office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since John F. Kennedy was assassinated (like Lincoln) there\u2019s been a lot of comparison of the two, and some of the comparisons are kind of interesting\u2026.
Lincoln and Kennedy were both shot in the head on a Friday.
Their successors were named Johnson (Lincoln\u2019w was Andrew Johnson, Kennedy\u2019s was Lyndon Johnson.)
Lincoln was shot in a theater named Ford, Kennedy was shot in a car (a Lincoln) made by Ford.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy both contain seven letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So even though Abe\u2019s birthday will go pretty much unnoticed in most places today, it is a state holiday in California, Connecticut, Missouri and Illinois. Interestingly, Indiana recognizes Lincoln\u2019s Birthday as a holiday on the day after Thanksgiving.\u00a0
Happy 213th birthday to my friend Abe.
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Today, February 12, is Abraham Lincoln\u2019s birthday. Over the years, February has become known as the months of President\u2019s \u2014 I guess probably because two of the best known US Presidents were born in February, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. … Continue reading