Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809 and was assassinated on April 15, 1865 in Washington D.C. at Ford's Theatre. He was raised in a Baptist family without attending college and married Mary Todd Lincoln at age 28. They had four sons together, though one died as a child before Lincoln became president, another died very young during his presidency, and the youngest died six years after Lincoln's death.