Short answers, pulled from the story.
Abraham Lincoln was born on the 12th of February 1809 in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. His father Thomas Lincoln worked as a farmer and cabinetmaker while struggling to secure clear property titles for their land.
Lincoln won the murder trial of William Duff Armstrong in 1858 by producing a Farmers' Almanac showing the moon was at a low angle reducing visibility when witnesses claimed they saw the crime in moonlight. This demonstration challenged eyewitness credibility and resulted in Armstrong walking free.
On the 6th of November 1860 Abraham Lincoln received one million eight hundred sixty-six thousand four hundred fifty-two votes representing thirty-nine point eight percent of the total. No ballots were cast for him in ten of fifteen Southern slave states yet he carried free Northern states plus California and Oregon decisively.
Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on the 22nd of September 1862 following Union victory at Antietam. He signed the final version on the 1st of January 1863 freeing slaves in ten states not under Union control.
John Wilkes Booth entered Ford's Theatre box at ten fifteen pm on April 14 to fire back of head mortally wounding Abraham Lincoln. The President died seven twenty-two am April 15 after remaining in a coma for nine hours at Petersen House across the street from the theater.