Etymology: Named for The lead sulfide ore galena: Location of Galena in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Location of Illinois in the United States: Coordinates: Coordinates: Country: United States: State: Illinois: County
Flags of the Confederacy displayed at a movie house on Lincoln's birthday in Winchester, Virginia in February 1940. Lincoln's Birthday is a legal holiday in some U.S. states, observed on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln 's birth on February 12, 1809.
Abraham Lincoln Genealogy. Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 and died April 15, 1865. He was the sixteenth president of the United States of America serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.