Two of America’s most famous presidents are Abraham Lincoln and John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK). They both lived completely different lives at completely different times, but there are a number of coincidences that connect the two men.
Lincoln was born in 1809 in Kentucky. He was the first President to be born in the West. Lincoln’s parents were poor farmers and he grew up in a small log cabin. You can see a reconstruction of the cabin at his birthplace, which is now a national park. Abraham only went to school for 18 months but he loved reading and he taught himself from the books he read. He eventually qualified as a lawyer in 1837.