15, 1858 Third debate, at Jonesboro, Illinois. Sept. 18, 1858 Fourth debate, at Charleston, Illinois. Oct. 7, 1858 Fifth debate, at Galesburg, Illinois. Oct. 13, 1858 Sixth debate, at Quincy, Illinois. Oct. 15, 1858 Seventh and last debate, at Alton, Illinois. Nov. 2, 1858 Defeated by Douglas for the United States Senate. Nov. 5, 1858 First mentioned in press for President. May 18, 1860 Nominated for the Presidency. Nov. 6, 1860 Elected President. Jan. 31, 1861 Visited for the last time with his stepmother. Mar. 4, 1861 Inaugurated as President. Nov. 8, 1864 Reelected as President. Mar. 4, 1865 Reinaugurated as President. Apr. 14, 1865 Shot by Booth. Apr. 15, 1865 Died in Washington. May 4, 1865 Buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. [Illustration: It was from the faithful Sinking Spring, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, that the farm of Lincoln’s nativity got its name.] [Illustration: The branches of the Boundary Oak, a landmark for early frontiersmen, still shelter the hallowed birthplace of the man who went to school for perhaps a year, split rails in frontier clearings, traveled the Eighth Circuit as a lawyer, became President of the United States, freed the slaves, spoke the First and Second Inaugurals and the Gettysburg Address.] [Illustration: On February 12, 1809, a blizzard raged at Sinking Spring Farm, near Hodgenville, Kentucky. The wind howled down the chimney and through the cracks of the humble log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. The proud parents named the boy Abraham after his grandfather.] [Illustration: When Abe was two years old, his father moved the family to Knob Creek Farm where they lived until Abe was seven. The cabin lay nestled in a valley surrounded by rolling hills and deep gorges. Here Abe played with his friend, Austin Gollaher, gathered firewood from the forest, wild berries from the vales, and for a short time attended Mrs. Hodgen’s “blab” school. Thomas Lincoln decided to move his family across the Ohio River to live on Pigeon Creek in Indiana where the soil was richer and there were no slaves.] [Illustration: The Lincoln’s erected a new log cabin on Pigeon Creek in Indiana. For the next fourteen years they struggled with the almost impossible odds of a bitter and treacherous wilderness. It was here that Abe’s mother died, and he helped his father lay her to rest in the forest.] [Illustration: In the little Log Schoolhouse near Pigeon Creek, in Indiana, Abe managed to get a few scattered weeks of sporadic schooling in readin’ writin’ and cipherin’ to the rule of three.] [Illustration: Abe did his homework by the light of the smouldering fireplace. He would scrape his charcoal cipherin’ from wooden boards so as to use them over and over again.]