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Lincoln and family. Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) was a lawyer, politician and the 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865. He was born in a one-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky, to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks.
The family through subsequent generations migrated west, passing through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. [3] Lincoln was also a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia; his paternal grandfather and namesake, Captain Abraham Lincoln and wife Bathsheba (née Herring) moved the family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky.
Robert Todd Lincoln: August 1, 1843 – July 26, 1926 Mary Eunice Harlan: Served as Secretary of War under the administrations of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Father of: Mary Todd Lincoln (1869–1938) Abraham Lincoln II (1873–1890) Jessie Harlan Lincoln (1875–1948) Edward Baker Lincoln Nickname: Eddie: March 10, 1846 ...
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 .
A black and white photograph of President Abraham Lincoln, from early 1864. ... There is also a photo of the Lincoln family dog, Fido. Pictured are Abraham Lincoln’s great-grandchildren, Mary ...
The eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, he was the only one of their four children to survive past the teenage years and also the only to outlive both parents. Robert Lincoln became a business lawyer and company president, and served as both United States Secretary of War (1881–1885) and the U.S. Ambassador to Great ...
The President never married or had children. The President's niece, Harriet Lane, acted as First Lady and served as hostess at White House functions. 16 Family of Abraham Lincoln: March 4, 1861 — April 15, 1865 Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln Robert Todd, Willie, and Tad: In 1862, Willie, after riding his pony in bad weather, became ill.
Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln issued approximately 340 pardons and commutations during his 1861 to 1865 presidency. These included granting amnesty to his wife Mary’s half-sister, Emilie Todd ...