Hanks was born in Concord, California. His father, Amos Mefford Hanks (Glenn County, California, March 4, 1924 – Alameda, California, January 31, 1992), was a chef and a distant relation of President Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. His mother, Portuguese American Janet Marylyn Frager (b. Alameda County, California, January 18, 1932), was a hospital worker; the two divorced in 1960. The family's three oldest children, Sandra, (now Sandra Hanks Benoiton, a writer), Larry (now Lawrence M. Hanks, Ph.D., an entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Tom went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, now an actor and film maker, remained with his mother in Red Bluff, California. Both parents remarried. The first stepmother for Sandra, Larry, and Tom came to the marriage with five children of her own. Hanks once told Rolling Stone magazine: "Everybody in my family likes each other. But there were always about fifty people at the house. I didn't