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Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, , in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky.

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His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute forced the family to leave in , they relocated to Knob Creek farm, eight miles to the north. By , Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, had lost most of his land in Kentucky in legal disputes over land titles.

In , Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, their nine-year-old daughter Sarah, and seven-year-old Abraham moved to what became Indiana, where they settled in Hurricane Township, Perry County, Indiana. (Their land became part of Spencer County, Indiana, when it was formed in )

Lincoln spent his formative years, from the age of 7 to 21, on the family farm in Little Pigeon Creek Community of Spencer County, in Southwestern Indiana.

As was common on the frontier, Lincoln received a meager formal education, the accumula