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	Mary Todd Lincoln Summary
		Mary Todd was a proud member of a wealthy Kentucky family whose members on both her paternal and maternal sides had fought in the American Revolution and the War of 1812.
		Mary Lincoln also assisted her husband by graciously entertaining prominent Illinois politicians, and she was especially well known for her strawberry parties, to which she invited the elite of Springfield.
		Mary Todd Lincoln was mentioned in the title of song number six on Sufjan Stevens 2005 album Illinois.
	www.bookrags.com /Mary_Todd_Lincoln (3255 words)

	Lincoln, Mary Todd (13 Dec
		Lincoln, Mary Todd (13 Dec. 1818-16 July 1882), first lady, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of Robert Smith Todd, a well-known Whig politician and, at various times in his life, a banker and partner of a dry-goods firm, and Eliza Parker.
		Mary Todd, the third daughter in a family of six surviving children, was six when her mother died.
		After returning to live there permanently in 1839, Mary Todd met Abraham Lincoln, and, after a courtship that was stormy due to the couple's differences in class and temperament and the opposition of her sisters, they married on 4 November 1842.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpXV/MaryToddLincoln.htm (839 words)

	First Ladies: MARY TODD LINCOLN
		Mary Todd was a Kentucky belle when she married Abraham Lincoln.
		Mary's fragile mental health took a severe blow with the death of her son, Willie, in 1862.
		Mary suffered a severe head injury in 1863 when she was thrown from her carriage and all agreed that her behavior was worsening.
	www.multied.com /Bio/ladies/lincoln.html (678 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mary Lincoln was unaware of the gossip surrounding her, and did not realize the extent of the rumors surrounding her.
		Mary’s grief after his death was inconsolable and she turned to spiritualists in an attempt to communicate with Willie.
		Mary was happy living and traveling through Europe, but all the while she wrote letters home petitioning for a pension and a home financed by the Republicans.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/PeopleView.Cfm?PID=95 (2123 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln
		Mary Ann Todd was born on December 13, 1818, in Lexington, Kentucky.
		Mary was one of 7 children born to Robert S. Todd and his wife, Eliza Parker Todd.
		Mary caused controversy as First Lady; she made both friends and enemies while her husband was President.
	home.att.net /~rjnorton/Lincoln76.html (997 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was born the third child to Eliza Ann Parker Todd and Robert Smith Todd on December 13, 1818.
		The Todd household took a turn for the worse after the wedding and rooms that were once filled with Eliza's love for her children were now filled with the rantings and ravings of a stepmother who strongly disliked her husband's children.
		The Todd's made a decision to stay and Mary wrote of that epidemic later in her life: "[There was] nothing on the streets, but the drivers and horses of the dead carts with the bodies of those who had just died.
	www.civil-war-tribute.com /mary_todd_lincoln.htm (2093 words)

	Amazon.com: Reviews for Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography: Books: Jean H. Baker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mary Todd had a lot of emotional problems that were not understood at the time and Lincoln himself had a degree of mental, and emotional problems.
		Mary was intelegent.She studied politacts and was a Bell in Kentucky.Though she did have ovbius emotional problems and fits of depressions--So did Abraham.However this is often over looked becaouse of his status.
		Mary Todd Lincoln is commonly dismissed as the "crazy" First Lady, un unpleasant burden on an outstanding president already burdened by a country at war with itself.
	www.amazon.com /Mary-Todd-Lincoln-Jean-Baker/dp/customer-reviews/0393305864 (2553 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln biography
		Mary’s stepmother was not sympathetic toward her stepchildren, which, some historians comment, might have contributed to Mary’s insecurities later in life.
		Mary made sure she and her husband were portrayed favorably to the public.
		Southerners felt Mary was a traitor, turning against her roots, while Northerners felt she was a spy, as many of her relatives sided with the Confederacy.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/linc-mar.htm (1663 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln's Agony
		Mary wore a fl and white striped silk dress, with fl lace veiling on her hair.
		Mary entered and bent over her husband's unconscious face covering him with kisses, calling him by endearing names, and begging him to speak.
		Mary was not in the room at the moment of death.
	members.aol.com /RVSNorton1/Lincoln62.html (1175 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mary's half brother, Sam Todd, was killed fighting for the Confederacy in the Battle of Shiloh.
		On July 2, 1863, Mary was involved in a carriage accident in which she was thrown to the ground and hit her head hard on a rock.
		Mary, now 56, spent several months in a private asylum in Batavia, Illinois, but she was released with the help of Myra Bradwell.
	members.aol.com /RVSNorton/Lincoln16.html (1904 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mary was the daughter of Eliza Parker and Robert Smith Todd, pioneer settlers of Kentucky.
		Mary grew up in luxury, but remembered her childhood as "desolate" although she belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with high-spirited social life and a sound private education.
		Mary's incessent efforts to change him to what she thought was a cultivated man must have been exasperating, much as he knew it was needed.
	histclo.com /pres/ind19/lincoln/lincolnmt.html (1780 words)

	Illuminati News: Mary Todd Killed Lincoln
		Mary Todd was barred from attending the funeral and two armed guards made sure she did not leave her room for 10 days after the shooting....that fact is in the National Archives.
		Mary Todd Lincoln was denied the normal customary widowers pension three times by the U.S. Congress (Today the pension is automatic).
		Mary’s father ask his grandmother Emma when he was a child where the photo came from and her reply was "let sleeping dogs lie" and then would often cry after making that statement.
	www.illuminati-news.com /mary-todd-killed-lincoln.htm (3159 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mary Todd was a well educated socialite from an influential and wealthy Kentucky family.
		Nightmares had terrorized Mary since childhood, and she was horrified when she learned of her husband's dream of finding himself lying in state in the White House.
		After the president was shot, Mary was escorted from his bedside several times because she could not cope with the reality of the situation.
	www.us-civilwar.com /mary.htm (338 words)

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		Todd who received a degree in law at Transylvania University was a leading member of the Whig party and very active in the politics of the day.
		Mary's father encouraged her to sit in on the political meetings that took place in her home, to have an opinion and be able to back it up.
		Mary Todd married Abraham Lincoln in November, 1842.
	home.insightbb.com /~ttabb3/MTLBio.htm (586 words)

	MARY TODD LINCOLN AND CLAIRVOYANCE
		Mary Todd probably became interested in the subject during the 1850's in Springfield when prophets appeared in the Midwest.
		The goal was to attain communication with invisible beings; in Mary's case, it was Eddie and Willie, her two dead sons.
		He produced a photograph of Mary with Abraham superimposed in the background with his hands on her shoulders.
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/mary_todd_lincoln.htm (500 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Abraham Lincoln was born and raised in a one-room log cabin; Mary Todd was born and raised in a fourteen-room house.
		Abraham approached Mary, and told her that he wanted to dance with her "in the worst way." As she later related the story, she said he did just that - danced with her in the worst way.
		Mary did not tell Elizabeth until their wedding day, November 4, 1842, that the couple was courting again.
	www.nps.gov /liho/family/mary2.htm (285 words)

	Profile: Mary Todd Lincoln - Jackson Civil War Muster
		Until I started researching the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, I too had a misunderstanding of her place in history.
		After Mary was found to be a "lunatic" and committed to the care of the asylum, I am sure that all the medications she had been taking were stopped and a new regimen set up.
		In my opinion Mary was not insane but more a victim of a medical community that did not yet understand the workings and diseases of the body or the interactions of medicines.
	members.ismi.net /mmcwr/scenes/mary_lincoln.html (626 words)

	Mary Todd... A Woman Apart - performed at Centenary Stage Company (CSC)
		Journey into the mind of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the most complex and misunderstood figures in American History.
		Todd's tenure in the white house as "First Lady" mingled misery with triumph.
		In July of 1876, with the help of a political ally, Todd received a new hearing and another jury declared her "sane." Mary Todd died in 1882 in Springfield, Ill, in the same house from which she walked out as the spirited and hopeful bride of Abraham Lincoln, 40 years before.
	www.centenarystageco.org /01Events/X_2001-02Season/06MaryTodd.htm (869 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln by the Mathew Brady Studio
		First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln was intelligent, witty, keenly supportive of her husband’s political career, a devoted wife, and an attentive mother.
		She alone had wooed a most remarkable human being to be her life’s companion, and this was done contrary to the wishes of her socially prominent relatives, with whom she was living at the time of her engagement.
		According to one source, this photograph of Mary Todd, wearing a meticulously fashioned fl dress with coordinated fl jewelry, is believed to have been taken in the autumn of 1863.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /leaders_marylincoln.html (293 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mary Ann Todd was born in Lexington, Kentucky on December 13, 1818, of a prominent and influential family whose ancestors had a distinguished record in the American Revolution.
		Mary received more education than most women did at that time and, perhaps as a result, she sometimes expressed her opinions more freely than some of her contemporaries considered proper.
		Shortly after her husband's death, Mary wrote: "There never existed a more loving and devoted husband." Mary Todd Lincoln died in Springfield on July 16, 1882, having never returned to the home she shared with Abraham Lincoln.
	www.nps.gov /liho/family/mary1.htm (233 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln's Wedding Day
		Mary Todd moved from Lexington, Kentucky, to Springfield, Illinois, in the fall of 1839.
		Mary's bridesmaids were Julia M. Jayne (in 1843 she married Lyman Trumbull who later became a U.S. Senator), Anna Caesaria Rodney, and Miss Elizabeth Todd.
		Lincoln by Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage by Ruth Painter Randall, The President's Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln by Ishbel Ross, and Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet by Wayne C. Temple.
	home.att.net /~rjnorton/Lincoln49.html (1113 words)

	Lincoln/Net: Mary Todd Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1842 Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd, a native Kentuckian who had come to Springfield, Illinois to live with her sister.
		Mary became a shrewd source of political counsel for her husband, and fueled his ambition with her own.
		Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who worked for Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House, wrote an autobiography entitled Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, describing her relationship with the First Lady.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /bio/mary.html (220 words)

	Thomas F. Schwartz \| Mary Todd's 1835 Visit to Springfield, Illinois \| Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 26.1 ...
		Mary Todd and her sister Frances witnessed an 1835 sales transaction recorded in Sangamon County Record Book H. The entry places the Todd sisters in Springfield two years earlier than previously thought.
		It is clear that Elizabeth Todd Edwards used the spare bedrooms to invite her sisters to visit for extended periods, always with an eye to finding a suitable spouse.
		On Mary's biographers see Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Little, Brown, 1953), 27, Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 9, and Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Norton, 1987), 75.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jala/26.1/schwartz1.html (1076 words)

	Mary Todd...A Woman Apart - performed Off-Broadway at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in New York City
		Written by Centenary Stage Company's artistic Director, Carl Wallnau, Mary Todd...A Woman Apart explores the intriguing life of a woman who in her youth was said to be "the very creature of excitement." Mary Todd's life as the wife of Abraham Lincoln was destined to be mercurial.
		Shattered by the death of loved ones, Todd hovered between depression and a tortured fear of poverty.
		In 1875, Todd's son Robert brought insanity proceedings against his mother, which led to a four-month residency in a private sanitarium.
	www.centenarystageco.org /01Events/W_2002-03_Season/06_MaryTodd_NYC.htm (719 words)

	Explore DC: Mary Todd Lincoln
		Perhaps one of the most examined first ladies, Mary Todd Lincoln was born into a prominent Kentucky family.
		Mary was attractive, intelligent and witty, but she was troubled by severe insecurity and suffered bouts of depression.
		When Mary was twenty-one she moved to Springfield, Illinois where she met and married Abraham Lincoln.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=208 (278 words)

	Biography of Mary Lincoln
		Daughter of Eliza Parker and Robert Smith Todd, pioneer settlers of Kentucky, Mary lost her mother before the age of seven.
		Her father remarried; and Mary remembered her childhood as "desolate" although she belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with high-spirited social life and a sound private education.
		Though opposites in background and temperament, they were united by an enduring love--by Mary's confidence in her husband's ability and his gentle consideration of her excitable ways.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/firstladies/ml16.html (434 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Lincoln Mary Todd - AOL Research & Learn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lexington, Ky. Of a good Kentucky family, she was living with her sister, daughter-in-law of Gov. Ninian Edwards of Illinois, in Springfield, Ill., when she met and married (1842) Lincoln.
		The harsh portrayal of Mary Lincoln by William H. Herndon is certainly exaggerated.
		The death of Willie in 1862 was a great sorrow to both Abraham and Mary Lincoln, and Tad's death in 1871 seems to have unsettled her mind (already affected by seeing her husband murdered at her side).
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/lincoln-mary-todd/20051206201109990035 (184 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln's Stay at Bellevue Place
		Mary did not realize that a public trial awaited her, and was forcibly taken to the courthouse on May 19, 1875, by Leonard Swett, a lawyer who knew both Robert and her late husband.
		Mary's actual mental, emotional, and physical condition in 1875 is still debated by historians and clinicians.
		The trial's verdict required Mary to be committed to the State Hospital for the Insane, but allowed her to stay in a private hospital such as Bellevue Place if finances allowed it.
	showcase.netins.net /web/creative/lincoln/sites/bellevue.htm (1078 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln House -- Lexington, Kentucky -- National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		Mary Todd was not born at this house but moved here with her family in 1832 when she was 14 years old.
		Todd was the president of the Lexington Branch of the Bank of Kentucky and also served in the Kentucky General Assembly for 24 years.
		The Mary Todd Lincoln House is located at 578 West Main St. It is open Monday-Saturday from March 15-November 30; guided tours are available from 10:00am to 4:00pm, there is a fee for admission.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/lexington/mtl.htm (355 words)

	Mary Todd Lincoln House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mary Todd Lincoln house has the distinction of being the first historic site restored in honor of a First Lady.
		Beula C. Nunn, wife of Louie B. Nunn (former Governor of Kentucky), along with Kentucky Mansions Preservation Foundation, Inc. and the Metropolitan Women's Club of Lexington, was responsible for the preservation and restoration of the Mary Todd Lincoln House.
		In June, 1996 the Beula C. Nunn Garden at the Mary Todd Lincoln House was dedicated and opened to the public.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln_House (328 words)

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