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Father of Abraham Lincoln (–)

For other uses, see Thomas Lincoln (disambiguation).

Thomas Lincoln Sr. (January 6, ^[a] – January 17, ) was an American farmer, carpenter, and father of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

Unlike some of his ancestors, Thomas could not write. He struggled to make a successful living for his family and faced difficult challenges in Kentucky real estate boundary and title disputes, the early death of his first wife, and the integration of his second wife's family into his own family, before making his final home in Illinois.

Ancestors

Lincoln was descended from Samuel Lincoln, a respected Puritan weaver, businessman and trader from the County of Norfolk in East Anglia who landed in Hingham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in ^[b] Some Lincolns later migrated into Berks County, Pennsylvania, where they intermarried with Quakers, but did not retain the peculiar ways.

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