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Mary Harlan Lincoln (née Harlan; September 25, 1846 – March 31, 1937) was the daughter of United States Senator James Harlan and the wife of Robert Todd Lincoln.
Mary Eunice Harlan was born on September 25, 1846, in Iowa, the daughter of James Harlan and Ann Peck. Her father was the Hon. James Harlan, U.S. Senator from Iowa and Secretary of the Interior under President Lincoln. She married Robert Todd Lincoln on September 24, 1868, in Washington, District of Columbia.
Mary Harlan Lincoln (née Harlan; September 25, 1846 – March 31, 1937) was the daughter of United States Senator James Harlan and the wife of Robert Todd Lincoln. The eldest child of James Harlan and Ann Eliza Peck, Mary Eunice Harlan was born in Iowa City, Iowa on September 25, 1846.
Robert T. Lincoln Marries Mary Harlan. When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated only weeks later, Robert’s future plans were abruptly changed. Instead of returning to study law at Harvard, he was obliged to “read law” with a Chicago firm, still an acceptable form of legal education.
Mary Harlan Lincoln, no date. In 1864, teenage Robert Todd Lincoln, with his mother’s consent, began to court a young well-educated woman from Iowa. Mary Harlan Lincoln was the daughter of a senator and, with the help of Mrs. and President Lincoln, Robert was able to escort her to the 1865 presidential inaugural ball.
Robert married Mary Harlan in 1868; they had three children, but their only son died as a teenager. His mother’s spending habits led him to have her confined to an insane asylum in 1875. More public-spirited than a public person, he served under Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur as Secretary of War (1881-85) and later as Minister ...
President Lincoln's widow never visited the house, but Mary Harlan Lincoln and her children spent summers here in the 1870s and 1880s. At the time, Mary and Robert Todd Lincoln lived in Chicago and Washington while Robert practiced law and served in the cabinets of Presidents Garfield and Arthur.
The entire 20,000 pages of Robert Todd Lincoln’s letterpress books, as well as hundreds of letters by his wife Mary Harlan Lincoln, children, and grandchildren; More than 3,000 Lincoln-related prints and photographs; More than 1,000 broadsides reflecting various aspects of Lincoln’s life and times
Mary Harlan Lincoln’s mother-in-law was known around the world - Former First Lady, widow of the martyred President Lincoln. But the two Mary Lincolns did not always have a cordial relationship, and after a long illness, Mary Todd Lincoln died on 16 July 1882.
Mary Harlan Lincoln, 1871 Robert and Mary had three children: Mary “Mamie”, Abraham Lincoln II “Jack”, and Jessie. Much like her mother-in-law, Mary Harlan Lincoln was faced with heartache when, in 1890, her son Jack died.