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Sep 6, 2024 · In 1842, he married Mary Todd Lincoln, who came from a well-to-do family. “There's no evidence that Mary Todd knew about Lincoln's intimacy, that carnal intimacy with Joshua Speed, but...
Sep 11, 2024 · On April 14, 1865, just five days after the close of the Civil War, Elizabeth Keckly, a former slave and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, retold the story from the night of Lincoln’s assassination, remembering how the First Lady’s cloak was wet with blood.
Sep 5, 2024 · Lincoln’s sleeping arrangements recur as evidence in the film, like how he shared the presidential bed with his bodyguard, David Derickson, when his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was away.
2 days ago · Mary Todd Lincoln around 1846 – She is described by one Lincoln biographer when she moved to Springfield as "a small, pretty young woman of twenty-two years, with beautiful pale, white skin, brown hair, and remarkably vivid blue eyes."
Sep 21, 2024 · So far as can be known, the first and only real love of Lincoln’s life was Mary Todd. High-spirited, quick-witted, and well-educated, Todd came from a rather distinguished Kentucky family, and her Springfield relatives belonged to the social aristocracy of the town.
Sep 8, 2024 · In 1839, Lincoln met Mary Todd, the daughter of a wealthy lawyer and businessman from Kentucky. The two fell in love and courted for several years before finally getting married on November 4, 1842. The two would continue to have a long and happy marriage from which four children would be born.
Sep 5, 2024 · On May 19, 1875, in a quiet, dimly lit Chicago courthouse, Mary Todd Lincoln, the widow of President Abraham Lincoln, sat alone. Moments before, she sat alone in her home and received a knock at the front door.
