He established an example that would last for generations and did more to flesh out the skeleton of the presidential office than anyone could have expected or predicted. Abraham Lincoln changed american history by protecting and freeing slaves he also led soldiers in the Civil War. A lot of these things that occured in Lincoln's life made Lincoln …show more content…
president to gain official recognition as an inventor by being granted a patent. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky, to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln in thier one room log cabin on their farm known as Sinking Spring. Warren wrote: “A most disturbing and bitter controversy over the rights and wrongs of slavery was being waged in that part of Kentucky where the Lincolns lived. So great an evil did Thomas and Nancy Lincoln hold slavery that to escape it if they were willing to leave their Kentucky home and move to a free State. Some of the people Abraham Lincoln looked up to includes, George Washington, Henry Clay, Theodore Parker, and Thomas Paine. Although Thomas lacked formal education, he was an excellent farmer and carpenter, and at times served as a member of the jury. The record book of the South Fork Baptist Church, located within two miles of the Lincoln sinking spring home, shows that in 1808 fifteen members ‘went off from the