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1816: His family was forced out of their home. He had to work to support them. Life on the American frontier in the early 19th century was no picnic for anyone; it required hours of back-breaking toil and drudgery day in and day out. In the context of their time, however, the Lincolns lived under rather unremarkable circumstances. To say that the Lincolns were "forced out of their home" in 1816 is rather misleading, because it implies they were suddenly and involuntarily uprooted from their home, with no warning and no place to go. Abraham Lincoln's father, Thomas, had owned farmland in Hardin County, Kentucky, since the early 1800s, and he left Kentucky and moved his family across the Ohio River to Indiana in 1816 for two primary reasons: * Kentucky was a slave state, and Thomas Lincoln disliked slavery -- both because his church opposed it, and because he did not want to have to compete economically with slave labor. * Kentucky had never been properly surveyed, and many settlers in the early 1800s found that establishing clear title to their land was difficult. Thomas Lincoln (and other farmers in the area) were eventually sued by non-Kentucky residents who claimed prior title to their lands. With plenty of land available in neighboring Indiana, a territory where slavery had been excluded by the Northwest Ordinance and the government guaranteed buyers clear title to their property, Thomas Lincoln opted to move rather than to spend time and money fighting over the title to his Kentucky farm. So, in a moderate sense the Lincolns could be said to have been "forced out of their home," but it did not happen abruptly, and they opted to leave because better opportunities awaited them. The other part of this statement, that a seven-year-old Abraham Lincoln "had to work to support" his family, is grossly misleading. Young Abraham did not have to take an outside job lest his poor family sink into financial ruin. Like nearly all farm children of his era, Lincoln was expected to perform whatever chores and tasks he was physically capable of handling around the farm. If Abraham worked harder and longer than most other children, it was not because the Lincolns' circumstances were extraordinarily difficult, but because Lincoln was exceptionally tall and strong for his age.

1831: Failed in business. Stating that Lincoln "failed in business" is another misleading claim, because it implies that he was the owner or operator of the failed business, or was otherwise responsible for its failure. None of this is true. Lincoln left his father's home for good in 1831 and, along with his cousin John Hanks, took a flatboat full of provisions down the Mississippi River from Illinois to New Orleans for a "bustling, none too scrupulous businessman" named Denton Offutt. Offutt planned to open a general store, and he promised to make Lincoln its manager when Abraham returned from New Orleans. Lincoln operated the store as Offutt's clerk and assistant for several months (and by all accounts did a fine job of it) until Offutt, a poor businessman, overextended himself financially and ran it into the ground. Thus by the spring of 1832 Lincoln had indeed "lost his job," but not because he had "failed in business."

1832: Ran for state legislature - lost. Lincoln did run for the Illinois state legislature in 1832, although as Lincoln biographer David Herbert Donald noted, "the post he was seeking was not an elevated one . . . [legislators] dealt mostly with such issues as whether cattle had to be fenced in or could enjoy free range." Lincoln finished eighth in a field of thirteen (with the top four vote-getters becoming legislators). However, this same year Lincoln also achieved something of which he was very proud, when the members of a volunteer militia company he had joined selected him as their captain. Lincoln said many years later that this was "a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since." (He also noted later in his career that his defeat in the 1832 legislative election was the only time he "was ever beaten on a direct vote of the people.") 1832: Also lost his job - wanted to go to law school but couldn’t get in. As noted above, Lincoln actually "lost his job" in 1831. The notion that in 1832 Lincoln "wanted to go to law school but couldn't get in" (why he couldn't get in remains unspecified) is just silly. Lincoln did eventually become a lawyer, and he accomplished the feat in the manner typical of his time and place: not by attending law school, but by reading law books and observing court sessions. He was indeed interested in becoming a lawyer as early as 1832, but, as Donald wrote, "on reflection he concluded that he needed a better education to succeed.

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