Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: A Concise Biography Creek, eight miles north of the birthplace. The parents were poor, like most of the pioneers, but they were never poverty stricken. Thomas Lincoln was in possession of between seven and eight hundred acres of land when Abraham was born, and one year listed four horses for taxation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.