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Mary Todd Lincoln
First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
For other women named Mary Lincoln, see Mary Lincoln.
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) served as the first lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865.
Mary Todd was born into a large and wealthy slave-owning family in Kentucky, although Mary never owned slaves and in her adulthood came to oppose slavery. Well educated, after finishing-school in her late teens, she moved to Springfield, the capital of Illinois. She lived there with her married sister Elizabeth Todd Edwards, the wife of an Illinois congressman. Before she married Abraham Lincoln, Mary was courted by his long-time political opponent Stephen A. Douglas.
Mary Lincoln staunchly supported her husband's career and political ambitions and throughout his presidency she was active in keeping national morale high during the Civil War. She acted as the White House social coordinator, throwing lavish balls and redecorating the White House at gr
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Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Page one and she's already accused of being a shrew and a termagant. I kept waiting for harpy.
By the age of seven, she had already suffered the following: the loss of family place to a first born son; the death of a infant brother; the loss of her middle name, Ann, to a new sister; and the acquirement of a stepmother after the death of her biological mother to puerperal fever. This is when my pity starts to set in. Mary Todd, whose father is extremely absent from her childhood, develops a hole, either in her soul or her heart, that she ventures to fill the remainder of her life. She was, however, very well educated for a female in the nineteenth century, studying history, arithmetic, geography, natural science, reading, writing, sewing, religion, and cooking. She also had a firm inclination to politics, which s
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Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was born December 13, 1818, in Lexington Kentucky, the fourth child of Robert Smith Todd and Elizabeth "Eliza" Parker. Mary’s father was a successful merchant and co-owner of a cotton mill, and the Todds were considered amongst the state's influential and politically connected handful of elite families. When she was only six years old Mary’s mother died in childbirth. Two years later, her father married Elizabeth "Betsy" Humphreys. Mary described her childhood as "desolate."
Considered rare for women in the early nineteenth century, Mary received nearly ten years of formal schooling: six years of study at Shelby Female Academy, with four years at Madame Charlotte Mentelle’s boarding school. She gained a lifelong fluency in French, a love of reading and learning, and knowledge of the world beyond Lexington.
Mary’s eldest sister, Elizabeth, married Ninian Wirt Edwards, son of the former territorial and state governor of Illinois, in 1832 and moved to Springfield, Illinois. Mary first visited in 18
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