Lincoln Fun Facts

Abraham Lincoln Fun Facts

In 1818 Abraham Lincoln nearly died after being kicked in the head
by a horse.

     It was President Abraham Lincoln who proclaimed that there be a national
             Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday of November. He proclaimed this
             on October 3, 1863.

     Abraham Lincoln is the tallest president the United States has ever had.
             He stood 6 feet 4 inches tall. When he wore his stovepipe hat, he stood
              nearly 7 feet tall!

     Abraham Lincoln was granted a patent on a device that lifts boats over
             shoals, and he is the only president ever to hold a patent.

Abraham Lincoln would keep notes and important papers in his stove-
pipe hat.

     In 1860 a little girl named Grace Bedell from Westfield, New York wrote a
             letter to Abraham Lincoln asking him to grow a beard. She told him the
             beard would help him be elected as President of the United States. By the
             he was elected President he had a full beard. ***Lincoln was the first
             President of the United States to wear a beard.

President Lincoln was our first U. S. President to be born outside of the
original thirteen colonies.

Today there are no direct descendents of Abraham Lincoln.

There are many coincidences between Abraham Lincoln and John F.
Kennedy. Here are three we think are very interesting:

Their Vice Presidents, both named Johnson, were southern Democrats, and both were in the Senate.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy, Kennedy's was named Lincoln.
Both of their secretaries warned them that they should not go to the place they were assassinated.

Frederick Douglass visited President Lincoln at the White House after
Lincoln was inaugurated into office.

Abraham Lincoln helped begin the Republican Party.

     Abraham Lincoln's likeness has been featured on more than 50 U.S. Postage
             stamps. The latest is a set of four released in February, 2009. These four
             depict Lincoln as a rail-splitter, lawyer, politician, and President.

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Lincoln Links on the Web

     We found many great websites about Abraham Lincoln. Some of them we listed
      on our Resources Page. The links below are others we found interesting and
       we are sure you will too!

* Lincoln's Journey of Remembrance

         This website is about the reenactment of Abraham Lincoln's flatboat trip
     from Spencer County, Indiana to New Orleans, Louisiana. He took this trip in
     1828, at the age of 19, with a friend, to transport goods and produce there.
     It was while Abraham Lincoln was on this trip that Lincoln saw slaves being sold at
     an auction. This experience furthered his total dislike of slavery.

* Lincoln Bicentennial - Live the Legacy

          This website is all about Lincoln's 200th Birthday and what is or has been
     happening across the nation to celebrate it. There are lots of fun sections to this
     site; such as a Kids section with contests and coloring page links, history of Lincoln,
     a Teachers section with lesson ideas, and even an Honest Abe Quiz you can take!
     (one problem...our school's network blocks this site for some strange reason, but you
     can visit it from home if that happens at your school.)

*Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

          We liked this website because it makes us really want to visit this museum!
     The website shows what can be found at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
     Library and Museum like the many exhibits that are there, Mrs. Lincoln's attic which
     has a lot of fun things to do like dress up like Lincoln, Journey areas where you
     can actually feel like you are in the White House with Lincoln, and so much more!

         ***We visited this museum! Go to Finding Lincoln to see photographs!

     Many more websites helped us with our project. Go to our Resources page and
     click on Websites to see them.

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