It is the root of many Ashkenazic last names, including Hirschfeld, Hirschbein/Hershkowitz (son of Hirsch), Hertz/Herzl, Cerf, Hart, and Hartman. It is the Yiddish translation of the Hebrew word for gazelle: tsvi.
Abraham Lincoln moved to New Salem, Illinois when he was 21, in 1832, and remained in Illinois until he was inaugurated President, in 1861. Approximately 29 years.es. Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary, purchased and moved into their first home about 1 1/2 years (in May of 1844) after they married, in Springfield, Illinois.
Lincoln's mother died in 1818, and the following year his father married a Kentucky widow, Sarah Bush Johnston. She proved a good and kind mother.. In later years Lincoln could fondly and poetically recall memories of his childhood home.. In 1828 he was able to make a flatboat trip to New Orleans.