Talk:Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln/Archive 1

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I broke up the article into seperate sections because it appears that the main article was getting just a little bit long. JesseG 22:59, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

"At a young age Abe learned to chop wood." This sentence appears at the beginning of this article but seems not important enough for inclusion. Should we remove it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.203.4.108 (talk) 22:47, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Article Expansion
I added material that I have been working on for some time. This OBVIOUSLY skews the article to cover in much more detail his pre 1850 life. My intent is to continue to expand this and a long term goal would be to split the article at the point where Lincoln returns to Springfield after his single term in Congress. Where I've added footnotes, the footnote generally covers all material in the paragraph up to either the top of the paragraph or any previous footnote in the paragraph. There are no footnote gaps in the material I added although I did leave in some uncited material that I haven't tried to source. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 13:42, 4 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I finished expanding the main body of the article. I still need to improve the lede, provide some cites from old material retained in the article, and tinker with a few other sections.  Absent any objections, I will finish off this article as limited only up to 1850 and start a new one titled something like Abraham Lincoln in the 1850s. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 00:19, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I added more content on Kentucky and Indiana years to lead up to his early political career in Illinois Rosalina523 (talk) 20:01, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham's Lincoln story is really sad. Nine years old losing is mom, and having to except a new mom a couple years later. How he died was so tragic getting shot just because he was trying to share his point of views. He did make an impact after he died. Now African people can be free!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ehmapp (talk • contribs) 21:25, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

twelve alleged fathers
Eleven men besides Thomas were alleged in various stories to have been Lincoln's father, but, in 1925, academic J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton discredited all eleven, albeit citing almost no sources (I think older scholarship in many fields generally cited fewer sources than modern scholarship does, making the shortage of sources inconvenient but, for the year written, not by itself a denial of scholarly quality), in I'm not sure whether to mention this in the article without more context, so I'm leaving this to other editors. Nick Levinson (talk) 17:59, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

The Many-Sired Lincoln A rambling popular press opinion piece canvasing circulating rumors on Lincoln's true father, with minimal factual underpinnings. Cited for anyone's interest. LarryLACa (talk) 01:24, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Thomas not Abe's biological father?
There are discussions that Thomas was castrated before puberty (at 10) and unable to father children.

Troy Cowan, Quora, 11/28/15 cites Emanuel Hertz, The Hidden Lincoln from the letters and papers of William H. Herndon, Blue Ribbon, Inc. 1938, pg 176

This then leaves an open question of who Abraham's biological father was. Troy mentions Samuel Davis..

This online source document NIU Lincoln / Net, items 673, 674 describe Enloe's denial and support Thomas's inability..

LarryLACa (talk) 00:55, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
 * To keep discussion in a centralized location, I would suggest any further discussion on this issue take place at Talk:Abraham Lincoln. Shearonink (talk) 03:23, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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