President Abraham Lincoln: Vital Statistics
About the life of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, the date and place of his birth and death.
16th President ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Born: February 12, 1809, in a long cabin on Sinking Spring Farm, near Hodgenville, Ky. His birthplace has been enclosed in a marble memorial building and is open to the public. Admission: free. A more worthy object for a Lincoln pilgrimage--and perhaps the most interesting of the many shrines and historic sites dedicated to Lincoln's memory--is his home at 430 South 8th Street, in Springfield, Ill. The only house that Lincoln ever owned (the family lived there from 1844 to 1860), it is filled with authentic furniture and other memorabilia. Open to the public daily except Thanks giving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. Admission: free.
Died: April 15, 1865, the morning after the was shot in the head while attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln was 56 years old. He was the 1st of 4 American Presidents to be assassinated. He was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, where his body remains at rest, despite the efforts of a pair of thieves to break into the tomb in 1876, steal Lincoln's remains, and hold them for $200,000 ransom. The plot was uncovered by a Pinkerton detective, and the grave robbers were caught red-handed, tried, and sentenced to a year in prison.
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