Kentucky
1809-1811
Type: log cabin
Location: Sinking Spring, near Hodgenville
Description: one-room, sixteen by eighteen feet, dirt floor, no glass windows
Occupation: None
1811-1816
Type: log cabin
Location: on Knob Creek
Description: one-room, dirt floor, no glass windows
Occupation: helped father with farm work
Indiana
1816 - Spring, 1830
Type: log house
Location: Southern Indiana
Description: one-room, sleeping loft reached by pegs in the wall, first dirt floor later wooden floor, no glass windows
Occupation: helped father with farmwork
- Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, dies of milk sickness on October 5, 1818
- Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln, marries Sarah Bush Johnston on December 2, 1819
Illinois
March 15, 1830 - March, 1831
Type: log house
Location: near Decatur, Illinois
Occupation: helped father with farm work
July, 1831 - April 15, 1837
Type: lived in several log houses
Location: New Salem, Illinois
Occupations: postmaster, clerk, surveyor, store keeper, Illinois state legislator
- Lincoln begins studying law
- In 1832, Lincoln is defeated in his first attempt to run for the Illinois State Legislature
- In 1834, Lincoln is elected to the Illinois State Legislature
- In 1836, Lincoln is re-elected to the Illinois State Legislature
1837-1841
Type: two-story wooden building
Location: Springfield, Illinois, at corner of Fifth and Adams Street
Description: Joshua Speed's general store
Occupation: lawyer, Illinois state legislator
- In 1838, Lincoln is elected to the Illinois State Legislature for the third time
- In 1840, Lincoln is elected to the Illinois State Legislature for the fourth time
1841-1842
Type: wooden building
Location: Springfield, Illinois, location uncertain
Description: William Butler's home
Occupation: lawyer
- Courts and becomes engaged to Mary Todd during 1842
November, 1842 - 1843
Type: two-story wooden inn
Location: Springfield, Illinois, on Adams Street
Description: Globe Tavern
Occupation: lawyer
- Robert Todd, their first son, is born on August 1, 1843
1843-1844
Type: wooden cottage
Location: Springfield, Illinois, on Fourth Street
Occupation: lawyer
1844-1861
Type: purchased as a one-and-a-half story cottage with six rooms; enlarged in 1855-56 to two stories with twelve rooms
Description: wooden structure, carpeted in several rooms, first and only home he ever owned
Location: Springfield, Illinois, corner of Eighth and Jackson Streets
Occupation: lawyer
- Eddie (March 10, 1846), Willie (December 21, 1850), and Tad (April 4, 1853) are born in this house
- August 4, 1846, Lincoln is elected to the United States House of Representatives
- Eddie dies on February 1, 1850 at the age of 3 years, ten months
- On November 2, 1858, Stephen A. Douglas defeats Lincoln for the United States Senate
- May 18, 1860, the Republican National Convention in Chicago nominates Lincoln for the presidency
- November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected president
- February 11, 1861 Lincoln departs Springfield, Illinois for Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
1847-1849
Type: two-story house
Location: Washington, D.C., on Capitol Hill
Description: Ann G. Sprigg's boardinghouse
Occupation: United States Congressman from Illinois
1861-1865
Type: multiple story stone house
Location: Washington, D.C., on Pennsylvania Avenue
Description: The White House, thirty-one rooms, carpeted
Occupation: President of the United States
- On February 20, 1862, Willie dies in the White House at the age of eleven
Summers 1862, 1863, 1864
Type: two-story brick house
Location: Washington, D.C., four miles north of the Capitol
Description: Soldiers Home, also known as the Riggs House (renamed Anderson Cottage in 1888), twelve rooms
Occupation: President of the United States
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