He always said It is my pleasure that my children are free, happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Chided or praised them for what they did - their acts, etc. He was very - exceedingly indulgent to his children. Lincoln was the kindest man and most loving husband and father in the world. Lincoln was a loving and indulgent father and Mrs. When Lincoln was elected sixteenth President of the United States in 1860, the oldest boy, Robert, was away at college, while the other two, Willie and Tad, were still living with their parents.
Their second son, Edward, died near the age of four in their Springfield home. Here the Lincolns had three more sons - Edward (Eddie), William (Willie), and Thomas (Tad). This was to be the only home he and his wife ever owned. In 1844, Abraham purchased and took up residence with his family in the house on the corner of Eighth and Jackson Streets.
Within the next year their first son, Robert, was born. They had many interests in common that brought them together and in 1842 they were married. In the years that he was getting established, Lincoln also met an attractive young woman named Mary Todd. Some of these people were to become his allies - and some his opponents - in political activities and in his work as a lawyer. While living in Springfield, Abraham Lincoln made the acquaintance of many people in different walks of life. In March of 1837, he was enrolled as an attorney, and that April, he moved to Springfield to begin his law practice. At the time of the 1834 campaign, he was encouraged to study law. He lost, but two years later, was successful, and was again in 1836. Already in 1832, he first ran for a seat in the state legislature. He had a partnership in a store-which failed, he served in the militia during the Black Hawk war, he was Postmaster, learned and practiced surveying, and considered being a blacksmith. After returning to Illinois from this successful journey, he settled in the small village of New Salem, where he had mixed success in a variety of callings. He was again hired to take a flatboat of produce to New Orleans. In the spring of 1831, Lincoln left his parents to try to find his own way in life. After the discouragingly hard winter of 1830-31, the Lincolns started to return to Indiana, but stopped in Coles County, Illinois, where Abraham's parents lived out the rest of their lives. In 1830, when Abraham Lincoln was 21 years old, he migrated with his father and stepmother (Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln) and her children to Macon County, Illinois. From here, Lincoln first traveled on a flatboat to New Orleans. There, as Lincoln later described his life, he was "raised to farm work." His mother died in 1818, and his sister Sarah in childbirth in 1828. In 1816, when Abraham was 7 years old, his parents moved to Perry County (later part of Spencer County) in southern Indiana, where his father bought land directly from the federal government. His parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was born on Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin on his father's farm in what was at that time Hardin County (today Larue County) Kentucky.
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