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Thomas Lincoln Sr. (January 6, 1778 – January 17, 1851) was an American farmer, carpenter, and father of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Unlike some of his ancestors, Thomas could not write.
Thomas Lincoln (6 de enero de 1778 – 17 de enero de 1851) fue un granjero, carpintero y padre del decimosexto presidente de los Estados Unidos, Abraham Lincoln. A diferencia de algunos de sus antepasados, Tomás no sabía escribir.
Hace 1 día · His father, Thomas Lincoln, was the descendant of a weaver’s apprentice who had migrated from England to Massachusetts in 1637. Though much less prosperous than some of his Lincoln forebears, Thomas was a sturdy pioneer. On June 12, 1806, he married Nancy Hanks.
Thomas Lincoln moved to the state of Kentucky in the 1780s with his family. In May 1786, Thomas witnessed the murder of his father by Indians “…when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest.” That fall, his mother moved the family to Washington County, Kentucky (near Springfield), where Thomas lived until the age of eighteen.
9 de ago. de 2018 · El presidente estadounidense que fue asesinado hace 150 años, no fue exactamente pobre como se cree, dice un experto en el tema. Hace 150 años murió uno de los presidentes más importantes de Estados Unidos: el 15 de abril de 1865, Abraham Lincoln fue víctima de un atentado en Washington.
From that postmortem period to present, most published critical judgments of Thomas conclude that he was a miserable failure both as a man and as a father. That is today’s conventional wisdom among Lincoln historians. It is time to take a fresh look at Thomas and reconsider those judgments and that wisdom.
10 de abr. de 2015 · Thomas Lincoln [Father] Thomas was born in Virgina, and his family soon brought him west to Kentucky. Indians killed his father, named Abraham Lincoln, while he was clearing farmland, leaving young Thomas and his family fatherless.
