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Abraham Lincoln: Mary Todd
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Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd. They had four sons, but three of them died before they grew up. Two of their sons enjoyed playing in the White House. One of them died there. Abe and Mary were very sad when each of their sons died.
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Shortly after his election, the South made it clear that it would secede in response to Lincoln's victory, which greatly increased tension across the nation. President-elect Lincoln survived an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland, and on February 23, 1861 arrived secretly in disguise to Washington, DC. The South ridiculed Lincoln for this seemingly cowardly act, but the efforts at security may have been prudent.
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The only other known, and hitherto earliest, daguerreotype of Lincoln, Meserve #1, in the possession of the Library of Congress, was a gift of Robert Todd Lincoln to Frederick Hill Meserve. Meserve reported that "Lincoln believed it was made in Washington in 1848".
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In 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd (1818-82), the daughter of a prominent Kentucky banker, and despite her somewhat difficult disposition, the marriage seems to have been reasonably successful. The Lincolns had four children, only one of whom reached adulthood.
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The theory is explored in detail in a number of works, most recently in the book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln by C. A. Tripp (ISBN 0743266390). David Herbert Donald (considered by many to be Lincoln's definitive biographer) disputes the findings, but Jean H. Baker, a student of David Herbert Donald and author of Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (ISBN 0393305864) wrote the introduction to Tripp's book and supports his claims, and Michael B. Chesson, professor at the University of Massachusetts and another student of David Herbert Donald wrote the afterward and supports the book's thesis.
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