2.1. Married Miss Mary Todd, of Kentucky. Of the four sons, Edward died in infancy; William at twelve at Washington; Thomas at Springfield, aged twenty; Robert M. T., minister to Great Britain, presidential candidate, secretary of war to President Garfield. His only grandson, Abraham, died in London, March, 1890.
3. 1844
3.1. Proposed for Congress.
4. 1845
4.1. Law partner with W. H. Herndon, for life.
5. 1846
5.1. Elected to Congress, the single Whig Illinois member; voted antislavery; sought abolition in the D. C.; voted Wilmot Proviso. Declined reelection.
6. 1848
6.1. Electioneered for General Taylor.
7. 1849
7.1. Defeated by Shields for United States senator.
8. 1851
8.1. Lincoln's father Thomas dies in Illinois at age of 73.
9. 1852
9.1. Electioneered for General Scott.
10. 1854
10.1. Won the State over to the Republicans, but by arrangement transferred his claim to the senatorship to Trumbull. October, debated with Douglas. Declined the governorship in favor of Bissell.
11. 1856
11.1. Organized the Republican Party and became its chief; nominated vice-president, but was not chosen by its first convention; worked for the Fremont-Dayton presidential ticket.
12. 1858
12.1. Lost in the legislature the senatorship to Douglas.
13. 1859
13.1. Placed for the presidential candidacy. Made Eastern tour "to get acquainted."
14. 1860
14.1. May 9, nominated for President, "shutting out" Seward, Chase, Cameron, Dayton, Wade, Bates, and McLean.
15. 1861
15.1. March 4, inaugurated sixteenth President; succeeds Buchanan, and precedes his vice - Andrew Johnson, whom General Grant succeeded. Civil War began by firing on Fort Sumter, April 12.
16. 1862
16.1. September 22, emancipation announced.
17. 1863
17.1. January 1, emancipation proclaimed. November 19, Gettysburg Cemetery address. December 9, pardon to rebels proclaimed.
18. 1864
18.1. Unanimous nomination as Republican presidential candidate for re-election, June 7. Reelected November 8.
19. 1865
19.1. March 4, inaugurated for the second term. April 14, assassinated in Ford's Theater, Washington, by a mad actor, Wilkes Booth. April 19, body lay in state at Washington. April 26, Booth slain in resisting arrest, by Sergeant Boston Corbett, near Port Royal. April 21 to May 4, funeral-train through principal cities North, to Springfield, Illinois.
20. February12,1809
20.1. was born on a stormy morning in a log cabin on the Kentuky frontier he was named after his grandfather
21. 1806
21.1. Lincoln's parents, Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks marry in Kentucky.
22. 1807
22.1. Lincoln's sister Sarah is born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky
23. 1812
23.1. Lincoln's brother Thomas dies in infancy.
24. 1817
24.1. Settled in Perry County, Indiana; father, mother, sister, and self.
25. 1818
25.1. October 5, Mrs. Thomas Lincoln (Nancy Hanks) died; buried Spencer County, Indiana. In 1901, a monument erected to her memory, the base being the former Abraham Lincoln vault. Schooling, a few months, 1819, '20 and '28, about six months' school.
26. 1819
26.1. Thomas (father of A. L.) marries again: Mrs. Johnson (Sarah Bush Johnson) of Kentucky.
27. 1826
27.1. Lincoln's sister Sarah marries Aaron Grigsby in Indiana.
28. 1828
28.1. Lincoln's sister Sarah dies in childbirth at age 20.
29. 1830
29.1. March, Lincoln family move into Illinois, near Decatur.
30. 1831
30.1. Works for himself: boatbuilding and sailing, carpentering, hog-sticking, sawmilling, blacksmithing, river-pilot, logger, etc., in Menard County, Indiana.
31. 1831
31.1. Election clerk at New Salem. Captain and private (re-enlisted) in Black Hawk War. Store clerk and merchant, New Salem. Studies for the law.
32. 1832
32.1. First political speech. Henry Clay, Whig platform. Defeated through strong local vote. Deputy surveyor, at three dollars a day, Sangamon County.
33. 1834
33.1. Elected to State legislature as Whig. (Resides in Springfield till 1861. Law partner with John L. Stuart till 1840.)
34. 1835
34.1. Postmaster, New Salem; appointed by President Jackson.
