"My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He led the country through the American Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

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