Papers, 1958-1972.

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882

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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. She served as First Lady from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 at Ford’s Theatre. Daughter of Eliza Parker and Robert Smith Todd, pioneer settlers of Kentucky, Mary lost her mother before the age of seven. Her father remarried; and Mary remembered her childhood as “desolate” although she belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with high-spirited social life and a sound private education. Just...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Turner, Linda Levitt

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Turner, Justin G., 1898-1976,

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Prominent manuscript collector and scholar; co-author of Lincoln, A Contemporary Portrait, 1962 and Mary Lincoln: Her Life and Letters, 1972. Co-founder and past president, Manuscript Society; chairman, California Civil War Centennial Commission; trustee, National Federation for Jewish Culture. Partner with brother Maurice Turner in real estate business. From the description of Papers, 1958-1972. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 252...