Was Abe Lincoln`s grandfather of Quaker descent?
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Abraham Lincoln Sr. (1744-1786) was grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln Sr. was a farmer in Amity, Pennslylvania and married to Bathsheba Herring.
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Kentucky\n\nIn the fall of 1808, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln settled on the 348 acre Sinking Spring Farm. Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin near the Sinking Spring. Here the Lincolns lived and farmed before moving to land a few miles away at Knob Creek. The area was established by Congress on July 17, 1916. An early 19th century Kentucky cabin, symbolic of the one in which Lincoln was born, is preserved in a memorial building at the site of his birth.
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He was a quaker.  They didn't believe in slavery\n\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/65/wh/WhittrJG.html
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Lincoln I believe.  c. 1861.  Always applies.
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Tenn was the last state to secede.\nVP for Abe Lincoln was a Tennessee man, Andrew Johnson.\n\nTenn was also the first to rejoin the Union.
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Just exactly who is Aberham lincoln?\nI know Abraham did not start the tradition.
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His father was Louis Davis, a servant for General John A. Logan. http://de.essortment.com/informationbenj_rhqy.htm\n\nI'm still looking for information on his mother.\n\nTHE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN GENERAL OFFICER IN THE REGULAR ARMY AND IN THE U.S. ARMED FORCES\nhttp://www.army.mil/cmh/topics/afam/davis.htm
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Abraham Lincoln, 6-foot-4
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nope, sorry.  we have a relative from the civil war, but we dont know a SINGLE THING about him! lol.  (we found his uniform though)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_lincoln
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Ancestor of Gordon Lightfoot?
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Uncle Moneybags.\n\nOh, wait, that's Monopoly. The correct answer: Abraham Lincoln.
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The L.D.S. church puts out a wonderful program called P.A.F. or Personal Ancestory File. It is a free download.  I think that you can either find it on geneology.com or lds.org  Good luck!
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We have been working on our "Roots" for years.  My great grandfather came from Alabama and his sisters and brothers scattered throughout the US.  We found out the slavemaster's name for our ancestor's but haven't been successful in tracking his ancester's yet.  We were told that The Mormon's kept records from slavery days so now we're concentrating on finding records at The Mormon's Church.  \n\nKeep in mind, that hte slaves were not educated and they did not spell last names the same.  They would spell and write the way it sound.  That only means that some of the ancester's surnames may have had an "A" when others may have had an "O".  Could all be sisters and brothers.\n\nSometimes the slavemasters chose to change the last names of some and some may have had the slavemaster's last name.  It's all so complicated.  \n\nI will continue searching. Maybe we can help each other.  gl
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WILLIAM PENN., a celebrated English Quaker and Philanthropist, the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania, the son of Sir William Penn, an eminent English admiral, was born at London, October 14th, 1644. His early years were spent partly in Essex and partly in Ireland, where his father had several estates. He studied at Christ church, Oxford, and while there was converted to Quakerism by the preaching of a disciple of George Fox, named Thomas Loc. His enthusiasm for his new faith assumed an aggressive form, for not only did he object to attending the services of the Church of England, and wearing the surplice of a student, both of which he considered eminently papistical, but, along with some companions who had also become Quakers, he attacked several of his fellow-students, and tore the obnoxious robes from their backs.\n\nHis colony became an asylum for the persecuted members of other sects beside the Quakers. Towards the end of the reign of Charles II, Penn returned to England to exert himself in favor of his persecuted brethren at home. His influence with James II - an old friend of his father's - was so great, that in 1686 a proclamation was issued to release all persons imprisoned on account of their religious opinions, and more than 1200 Quakers were set free.\n\nPenn died at Ruscombe, in Berkshire, July 30th, 1718. The character of William Penn, and his code of laws, have been the the theme of eulogy. "In the early constitutions of Pennsylvania, are to be found the distinct annunciation of every great principle; the germ, if not the development, of every valuable improvement in government or legislation which has been introduced into the political systems of modern epochs." - T.J. Wharton, Discourse before the Penn Society, 1826. "To William Penn belongs the distinction of establishing the Law of Love as a rule of conduct in the intercourse of nations." - Charles Sumner, True Grandeur of Nations.
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Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Hamlin served in the Maine Legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and as Governor of Maine. Hamlin began his career as a Democrat but later became a member of the Republican Party. He was the first Republican to serve as Vice President of the United States, elected as Abraham Lincoln's running mate in the 1860 presidential election.
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Abraham Lincoln \n\n(February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery and oversaw the Union war effort during the American Civil War. He selected the generals and approved their strategy; selected senior civilian officials; supervised diplomacy, patronage and party operations; rallied public opinion through messages and speeches such as the Gettysburg Address; and took personal charge of plans for the abolition of slavery and the Reconstruction of the Union. He was assassinated as the war ended.\n\nPresident Lincoln was opposed to what he saw as the Slave Power and staunchly opposed its efforts to expand slavery into federal territories. His victory in the 1860 presidential election was the final straw in the deep South, where seven states seceded, formed the Confederate States of America, and took control of U.S. forts and other properties within their boundaries, setting the stage for the American Civil War.\n\nLincoln is often praised for his work as a wartime leader who proved himself at balancing competing considerations and at getting rival groups to work together toward a common goal. Lincoln had to negotiate between Radical and Moderate Republican leaders, who were often far apart on the issues, while attempting to win support from War Democrats and loyalists in the seceding states. He personally directed the war effort, in close cooperation (1864-65) with General Ulysses S. Grant which in spring 1865 led to the surrender of all Confederate armies.\n\nHis leadership qualities were evident in his first diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in 1862, in his many speeches and writings which helped mobilize and inspire the North, and in his defusing of the peace issue in the 1864 presidential campaign. Copperheads vehemently criticized him for violating the Constitution, overstepping the bounds of executive power, refusing to compromise on slavery, declaring martial law, suspending habeas corpus, ordering the arrest of 18,000 opponents including public officials and newspaper publishers, and killing hundreds of thousands of young men, soldiers in the war. Radical Republicans criticized him for going too slow in the abolition of slavery, and not being ruthless enough toward the conquered South.\n\nLincoln is most famous for his roles in preserving the Union and ending slavery in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.\n\nHistorians have argued that Lincoln had a lasting influence on U.S. political and social institutions, importantly setting a precedent for greater centralization of powers in the federal government and the weakening of the powers of the individual state governments.\n\nLincoln spent most of his attention on military matters and politics but with his strong support his administration established the current system of national banks with the National Bank Act. He increased the tariff to raise revenue and encourage factories, imposed the first income tax, issued hundreds of millions of dollars of bonds and Greenbacks, encouraged immigration from Europe, started the transcontinental railroad, set up the Department of Agriculture, encouraged farm ownership with the Homestead Act of 1862, and set up the modern system of state universities with the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. During the war his Treasury department effectively controlled all cotton trade in the occupied South--the most dramatic incursion of federal controls on the economy. During his administration West Virginia and Nevada were admitted as states.\n\nLincoln is always ranked as one of the two or three greatest presidents.