Who was Abraham Lincoln, and why is he remembered?
Tall Man's Choice
Who was Abraham Lincoln, and why is he remembered?
Picture a tall, lanky man in a stovepipe hat, so tall he had to duck through doorways. That's Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States. He grew up in a log cabin on the American frontier, about as far from fame as you can get. And yet, more than a century and a half later, we still tell his story.
Lincoln was born in 1809 to a poor farming family in Kentucky. There were no fancy schools nearby, so he taught himself almost everything. He read books by firelight, borrowed every one he could find, and walked long miles to return them. A boy with big questions and not much else, building a mind one page at a time.
