ABRAHAM LINCOLN: An Abraham Lincoln BiographyThe life story of the 16th President of the United States of America began very humbly on the 12th of February 1809 in an unimpressive one room log cabin at Sinking Spring farm near Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky.Hardin County was established in 1792 from a portion of land given by Nelson County. The county's name is derived from Colonel John Hardin who served as a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War. Colonel Hardin was one of the first Judges in the Washington County but he would later be killed in the service of his country while acting as a peace emissary to the Shawnee Indian people under the orders of the President, George Washington.Abraham Lincoln may have taken a leaf from Colonel Hardin's life's page by his devotion to public service which would, like Colonel Hardin before him, ultimately cost him his life. This is his story...