Letters : Washington, [D.C.], to John [Todd Stuart], 1861 Mar. 20 and May 8.

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Letters : Washington, [D.C.], to John [Todd Stuart], 1861 Mar. 20 and May 8.

Letters concern life visiting the Abraham Lincoln family at the White House. May 8 letter describes Washington, D.C. at the start of the Civil War.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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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...

Grimsley, Elizabeth Todd, 1825-1895.

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Springfield, Illinois, resident; cousin to Mary Todd Lincoln and John Todd Stuart. Married Harrison Grimsley, 1846 and Rev. John H. Brown, 1867. From the description of Six months in the White House, [1894] (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 32363977 Springfield, Illinois, resident; cousin to Mary Todd Lincoln and John Todd Stuart. Married Harrison Grimsley, 1846, and Rev. John H. Brown, 1867. ...

Stuart, John Todd, 1807-1885

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Springfield, Illinois lawyer and politician; early law partner of Abraham Lincoln. From the description of Affidavit, 1874. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 647977056 Springfield, Ill. lawyer who was a friend of Lincoln, loaned him books with which to study the law and then took him into his office to practice. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1848 and the U.S. House in 1862, serving one term in each, then returned to Springfield to practice law. ...

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...

Todd family.

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