mary todd lincoln

     

Carl Sandburg co-wrote a 1932 biography of this woman, "Wife and Widow"

Trivia about mary todd lincoln

  • She once said that of all her sorrows, the death of her son Tad, at 18, hurt the most
  • She had 4 sons but only the oldest, Robert, lived to adulthood
  • This First Lady was committed to a mental hospital in 1875, 10 years after her husband's death
  • Known for her lavish spending in the White House in the 1860s, her account was closed for good in 1882
  • 1861-1865
  • After 1st breaking the engagement, Lincoln went on to marry her
  • Too distraught, she did not attend the 1865 funeral of her assassinated husband
  • First lady who was the subject of Irving Stone's "Love Is Eternal"
  • In 1875, after 3 months in a mental institution, she was released in the custody of her sister in Springfield, Ill.
  • One of her early suitors was her husband's arch rival, Stephen A. Douglas
  • One of the other 3 people in the presidential box with Lincoln & Booth at the time of the attack
  • Sadly, she was declared insane on May 19, 1875 & tried to commit suicide that evening
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a presidential library.) In letters from 1840, she wrote both ways on the page to save paper & money; ironically, she was pilloried by the press for spending too much as First Lady
  • She's the only first lady whose first name was Mary
  • In 1875 this woman seen here was put in a sanitarium, but she was deemed sane a year later
  • What a shopper! In the 1860s she reportedly bought 300 pairs of gloves during one 4-month period
  • December 13, 1818 in Lexington, Kentucky
  • In 1861 she received a Tiffany seed-pearl jewelry set from her husband
  • Before marrying the future president, she dated his political rival Stephen Douglas
  • Sarah Bernhardt claims she once saved this extravagant first lady from falling to her death on a ship
  • This first lady born in Kentucky in 1818 could speak French fluently
  • She was 5 foot 2, eyes of blue, & a member of Kentucky's high society
  • Her feelings about thespians might have been improved when Sarah Bernhardt reportedly saved her life in 1880

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