My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.


Autobiographical Sketch Written for Jesse W. Fell (1859)

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now...

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now...

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now...

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now...