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Tag Archives: First Lady Mary Lincoln
Civil War Divas: Mary & Julia Part II
After the initial “how-do,” Mary Lincoln and Julia Grant did not meet again for a year. Mary Lincoln: 1864-5 Mary Lincoln took a long time to emerge from her deep grief over her son Willie’s death in early 1862. Custom … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Adam Badeau, American history, City Point VA, Civil War history, Col. Adam Badeau, Col. Horace Porter, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, First Lady Mary Lincoln, General Charles Griffin, General Grant, history, Julia Grant, Mary Lincoln, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Mary Ord, Mrs. Sarah Griffin, Presidential history, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, White House history
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Mary Lincoln’s Bad Hat Story
First the source. When she was a very old lady in 1931, Julia Taft Bayne published a slim volume called Tad Lincoln’s Father. It was her personal memoir of 1861-2, when, as a teenager, she spent a good deal of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Bud and Holly Taft, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, First Lady Mary Lincoln, history, Lincoln friends Bud and Holly Taft, Mary Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Presidential history, Presidential wives, US history, White House history
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Mary Lincoln and Julia Grant: The CW Divas Part 1
The similarities were apparent; the dissimilarities were intrinsic. Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1883) was seven years older than Julia Dent Grant. From Kentucky and Missouri respectively, they were both considered “westerners” in the early part of the 19th century. They both … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, First Lady Mary Lincoln, history, Julia and Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Dent Grant, Julia Grant, Mary Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Presidential history, US history, White House history
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The First Burial of Willie Lincoln
Willie Lincoln was 11 when he died in the White House. Willie. In December, 1850, ten months after his sickly four year old brother Edward Baker Lincoln died, William Wallace Lincoln was born. He was the third son born to … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie, American history, Bud and Holly Taft, Dr. Phineas Gurley, Dr. William Wallace, Eddy Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, First Lady Mary Lincoln, history, Lincoln friends Bud and Holly Taft, Lincoln secretary John Hay, Mary Lincoln, Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield IL, President Abraham Lincoln, Presidential history, Robert Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, The personality and character of Willie Lincoln, The sons of Abraham Lincoln, US history, White House history, William Carroll's cemetery vault, William Wallace Lincoln, Willie Lincoln
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Mary Lincoln and the Seed Pearls
No question abut it, Mary Lincoln liked nice stuff! The Well-Born Miss Todd Miss Mary Todd (1818-1882) was born into what might be called Lexington, Kentucky aristocracy. At birth, she was already 3rd generation Lexingtonian. The Todds had done well … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady History, First Lady Mary Lincoln, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, history, Lincoln's inauguration, Mary Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Presidential history, Robert Todd Lincoln, the Lincoln house in Springfield, Tiffany & Company, US history, White House history
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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Ball
The mood of the country was vastly different in 1865 than in 1861. The Difference Being… …(at least in general essence), that in 1861, the country was nervous and frightened. Several Southern states already seceded, and the tensions at South … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th President Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Mary Lincoln, history, House Speaker Schuyler Colfax, Lincoln's Second Inaugural, Lincoln-Johnson Clubs, Mary Harlan, Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln, Presidential history, Robert Lincoln, Senator Charles Sumner, The Patent Office in 1860, US history, White House guard William Crook, White House history
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Lincoln’s White House: A Book Review
If one had to describe Lincoln’s White House: The People’s House in Wartime, one could easily call it a string of pearls encased in a Tiffany box. It is more than just a mere delight. It is a treasure that … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Book Review, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Mary Lincoln, history, James B. Conroy, John G. Nicolay, John Hay, Lincoln's Secretaries, Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln, Presidential history, The Civil War, The White House, US history, White House history, William O Stoddard
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Abraham Lincoln and Smallpox
Abraham Lincoln suffered from variola (smallpox) when he was in the White House. November, 1863 Almost as an afterthought, President Lincoln had been invited to make “a few appropriate remarks” at an event in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In July, a massive … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Dedicating the Gettysburg cemetery, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Mary Lincoln, history, John G. Nicolay, John Hay, Lincoln's health history, Lincoln's Secretaries, Orator Edward Everett, PA Governor Andrew Curtin, President Abraham Lincoln, Presidential history, the battle of Gettysburg, US history, Variola and smallpox, White House history, William Stoddard
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The White House Conservatory: The Lost Treasure
Arguably the largest of all lost White House treasures, is the Conservatory. The Greenhouse Concept Some three hundred years ago, the first greenhouse was built in Colonial America. The concept had been known in Europe for some time: to provide … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies history, First Lady Caroline Harrison, First Lady Ida McKinley, First Lady Lucy Hayes, First Lady Mary Lincoln, flowers in the White House, Harriet Lane, Lucy Hayes' avant garde dinner service, Nellie Grant's White House Wedding, President Abraham Lincoln, President Franklin Pierce, President Grover Cleveland, President James Buchanan, President Theodore Roosevelt, President Ulysses S. Grant, Presidential history, The Crystal Palace, The White House Conservatory, US history, White House history
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