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Joseph Crosby Lincoln (February 13, 1870 – March 10, 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Biography [ edit ]
Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994) Michael Burlingame, An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd (Pegasus Books, 2021) Catherine Clinton, Mrs. Lincoln: A Life (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010) Emerson, Jason (2007). The Madness of Mary ...
Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. [73] [74] Simmons, D. L. (1970). A Rose for Mrs. Lincoln: A Biography of Mary Todd Lincoln. Boston: Beacon. [75] Williams, F. J. (2012). The Mary Lincoln Enigma: Historians on America's most controversial First Lady. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. [76] Journal ...
Lincoln was an eyewitness when Charles J. Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield at the Sixth Street Train Station in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1881. Lincoln was serving as Garfield's Secretary of War at the time. Lincoln was at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, when President William McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz.
[10] [11] At the time of Nancy's birth, Joseph and his wife and children were all living on 108 acres near Patterson Creek in then-Hampshire County, Virginia (now Mineral County, West Virginia). In March 1784, Joseph Hanks sold his property via a mortgage and moved his wife, eight children and young granddaughter Nancy to Kentucky. [12] [13]
Richard Naradof Goodwin (December 7, 1931 – May 20, 2018) was an American writer and presidential advisor. He was an aide and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to Senator Eugene McCarthy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
In 1835, a wave of typhoid hit the town of New Salem. Ann Rutledge died at the age of 22 on August 25, 1835. This left Lincoln severely depressed. [8] Historian John Y. Simon reviewed the historiography of the subject and concluded, "Available evidence overwhelmingly indicates that Lincoln so loved Ann that her death plunged him into severe depression."
Samuel Lincoln (c. 1622 – 1690), immigrant ancestor of the president; Abraham Lincoln (captain) (1744–1786), grandfather of the president; Thomas Lincoln (1778–1851), father of the president; Nancy Lincoln (1784–1818), mother of the president; Mary Todd Lincoln (1818–1882), wife of the president; Robert Todd Lincoln (1843–1926), son ...