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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 9. (search)
ts censure between Lincoln and his wife. Mary Todd, who afterwards became the wife of Mr. Lincoof the Edwardses, Lincoln was led to call on Miss Todd. He was charmed with her wit and beauty, no Douglas' affection was a mere flirtation on Mary Todd's part, intended. to spur Lincoln up, to ma. which he did with great reluctance. If Miss Todd intended by her flirtation with Douglas to t The letter, relates Speed, was addressed to Mary Todd, and in it he made a plain statement of his n on things nearer home. His relations with Mary Todd were still strained, but reminders of his pes glorious possibilities, and desiring to do Mary Todd a kindly act, determined to bring about a reconciliation. She knew that Miss Todd had by letter a few days after that fatal first of January, hter, Abraham Lincoln was at last married to Mary Todd. While dressing for the wedding in his rod the loss forever of a happy home. With Miss Todd a different motive, but one equally as unfor[17 more...]
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 10. (search)
r of territorial posts by President Taylor. a journey to Washington and incidents. return to Illinois. settling down to practice law. life on the circuit. story-telling. habits as lawyer and methods of study. law-office of Lincoln and Herndon. recollections of Littlefleld. studying Euclid. taste for literature. Lincoln's first appearance in the Supreme Court of Illinois. professional honor and personal honesty. the juror in the divorce case. After the wedding of Lincoln and Miss Todd at the Edwards mansion we hear but little of them as a married couple till the spring of 1843, when the husband writes to his friend Speed, who had been joined to his black-eyed Fanny a little over a year, with regard to his life as a married man. Are you possessing houses and lands, he writes, and oxen and asses and men-servants and maid-servants, and begetting sons and daughters? We are not keeping house, but boarding at the Globe Tavern, which is very well kept now by a widow lady of t
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 14. (search)
ers still reside in Springfield. If ever my husband dies, . she ejaculated during the ride, his spirit will never find me living outside the limits of a slave State. as proud and as ambitious to exercise the rights of supremacy in society as Mary Todd should repent of her marriage to the man I have just described surely need occasion no surprise in the mind of anyone. Both she and the man whose hand she accepted acted along the lines of human conduct, and both reaped the bitter harvest of cs, who still survives, maintains the theory that, after all, Lincoln's political ascendancy and final elevation to the Presidency were due more to the influence of his wife than to any other person or cause. The fact, insists this friend, that Mary Todd, by her turbulent nature and unfortunate manner, prevented her husband from becoming a domestic man, operated largely in his favor; for he was thereby kept out in the world of business and politics. Instead of spending his evenings at home, r
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 5. (search)
Chapter 5. Springfield society Miss Mary Todd Lincoln's engagement his deep despondency visit to Kentucky letters to Speed- the Shields duel marr there from all parts of the State, there came into the Springfield circles Miss Mary Todd of Kentucky, twenty-one years old, handsome, accomplished, vivacious, wittyI am is impossible; I must die or be better. Apparently his engagement to Miss Todd was broken off, but whether that was the result or the cause of his period ofcca, who called herself a farmer's widow. It is hardly necessary to say that Mary Todd was one of the culprits. The young ladies originated the scheme more to pokefor a month. These occurrences, naturally enough, again drew Mr. Lincoln and Miss Todd together in friendly interviews, and Lincoln's letter to Speed detailing the for on November 4, 1842, the Rev. Charles Dresser united Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd in the holy bonds of matrimony. The following children were born of this m
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
, for the time at least, a deeply saddening effect. A second love affair was lukewarm and ended happily in divergence. The serious matter, his engagement to Miss Mary Todd, led to such acute questioning of himself, such painful analysis of his feeling, such doubt of his ability to make her happy, that the engagement was broken othe whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. （23 January, 1841.) Two years were to elapse before the harm was repaired and Lincoln and Miss Todd married. Meanwhile Speed, becoming engaged, suffered a similar ordeal of introspection, of pitiless self-analysis. He too doubted the reality of his feeling, fs puts an end to inquiry. . . . We have opposed to us [in introducing American books] the publishers of most of the popular periodical works in our large towns. Todd, C. B., Life and letters of Joel Barlow, p. 247. The entire letter, pp. 247-252, is worthy the careful study of the student of our early literature. Webster fu
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Through the eye of the Needle, 83 Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, 158 Through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, 158 Thwaites, R. G., 165, 174 Ticknor, George, 36, 306, 307, 397, 447, 450, 451, 452-59, 468, 544 Tieck, Ludwig, 455 Tilden, Samuel J., 348 Times (Chicago), 322 Times (London), 568 Times (N. Y.), 321, 322, 325, 326 Tippo Saib and others, 582 Titian, 96 To Anacreon in heaven, 494 Todd, C. B., 541 n. Todd, Mabel Loomis, 33 Todd, Mary, 371 To have and to hold, 91, 287, 550 Tolstoy, 81, 83, 87, 92, 606 Tome, Philip, 154 To-Morrow, 277 Tom Sawyer, 15, 16, 20 Tom Sawyer abroad, 15 Tom Sawyer, detective, 5 Tony the Bootblack, 287 Tools and the man, 217 Too much Johnson, 285 Torrence, Ridgely, 267 Torrey, Bradford, 165 Tourgee, Albion Winegar, 86, 352 Townsend, Edward Waterman, 26 Toymaker of Niiremburg, the, 292 Tracy, Destutt, 429-30 Trades Review, 438 Tragic muse, the, 103 Trail of t
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
b. 17 Oct. and d. 27 and 28 Oct. 1782; to the foregoing Binney adds Zechariah, b. 1 Jan. and d. 21 Sept. 1784; Polly, b. 24 Nov. 1785, m. Abijah Pierce; Rebecca, b. 22 Oct. 1787, m. Ebenezer Warren; John, b. 12 Sept. 1789, m. Sarah Hall; Joseph, b. 27 May 1792, d. 19 Nov. 1795; Benjamin, twin, b. 27 May 1792, killed by a fall from a wagon in New York 1836. George the f. res. in Menotomy, and d. 6 Oct. 1819, a. 73; his w. Lydia d. 3 Sept. 1822, a. 75. 33. Samuel, s. of Daniel (19), m. Mary Todd 13 June 1782, and had Samuel, b. 12 Ap 1783, d. 6 Sept. 1807; Daniel, b. 15 Sept. 1787, d. 1 Mar. 1796; an infant, b.——, d. July 1794; Elizabeth, b. 6 Ap. 1794, m. Joseph Brackett 2 Ap. 1819; Joseph, b. 12 Nov. 1797, went to North Carolina. Samuel the f. d. 18 July (or 25, gravestone,) 1795; his w. Mary d. 27 Ap. 1832, a. 82. 34. Jonas, s. of Jonas (23), m. Rachel Kent of Charlestown 22 May 1765; and Sarah Prentice 12 Nov. 1777; she d. 1784, and he m. Hannah Goddard 1 Dec. 1785. His c
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, P. (search)
b. 17 Oct. and d. 27 and 28 Oct. 1782; to the foregoing Binney adds Zechariah, b. 1 Jan. and d. 21 Sept. 1784; Polly, b. 24 Nov. 1785, m. Abijah Pierce; Rebecca, b. 22 Oct. 1787, m. Ebenezer Warren; John, b. 12 Sept. 1789, m. Sarah Hall; Joseph, b. 27 May 1792, d. 19 Nov. 1795; Benjamin, twin, b. 27 May 1792, killed by a fall from a wagon in New York 1836. George the f. res. in Menotomy, and d. 6 Oct. 1819, a. 73; his w. Lydia d. 3 Sept. 1822, a. 75. 33. Samuel, s. of Daniel (19), m. Mary Todd 13 June 1782, and had Samuel, b. 12 Ap 1783, d. 6 Sept. 1807; Daniel, b. 15 Sept. 1787, d. 1 Mar. 1796; an infant, b.——, d. July 1794; Elizabeth, b. 6 Ap. 1794, m. Joseph Brackett 2 Ap. 1819; Joseph, b. 12 Nov. 1797, went to North Carolina. Samuel the f. d. 18 July (or 25, gravestone,) 1795; his w. Mary d. 27 Ap. 1832, a. 82. 34. Jonas, s. of Jonas (23), m. Rachel Kent of Charlestown 22 May 1765; and Sarah Prentice 12 Nov. 1777; she d. 1784, and he m. Hannah Goddard 1 Dec. 1785. His c
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
ct. ch. 13 Sept. 1801, and had a child, d. 20 June, 1800, a. 2 days; George Washington, bap. 13 Sept. 1801, d. 2 Aug. 1823, a. 22; Elizabeth, bap. 19 Feb. 1804; Mary Todd, bap, 29 June, 1806; Catherine Barron, bap. 17 Dec. 1809, d. (1822); Henry Dearborn, bap. 19 July, 1812, d. 13 Nov. 1821, a. 9. Wash-Ington the father m. secondrah Holden, bap. 13 Nov. 1796; John (a 15 mos. and sick), bap. 20 July, 1804, d. 20 July, 1804, a. 15 mos.; also three chil. bap. in private 10 Aug. 1805, viz., Mary Todd, who m. Jonas Peirce, Jr., 4 May, 1817, James McGregore, and John, who d. 10 Aug. 1805, a. 6 mos.; Royal Crafts, bap. 11 Sept. 1808. Amy Sawtell d. 21 Jan. 1814843, a. 14. （Thomas Thorpe, d. 27 Feb. 1868, a. 78; Sarah H., w. of same, d. 2 Oct. 1862, a. 75.) Tisdale, I. (in P. Bemis's house), d. 13 Feb. 1776, a. 64. Todd, William, Jr., late of Boston, m. Mary Miles of Camb. 7 Apr. 1776. Trask, Hannah C., m. Amos Prentiss, 23 Sept. 1813. Tufts, Peter, Jr., of Charlestown, m.
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., Index of names. (search)
nant, 309 Terry, 351 Thatcher, 56, 57, 83, 185, 200, 225, 252, 270, 271, 273, 309 Thaxter, 342 Thayer, 31 Thomas, 14, 105,146, 194, 219, 264, 309 Thompson, 111, 112, 129, 131, 169, 178,202,251, 264, 266, 272, 309, 310, 335, 349 Thorndike, 184, 194,252, 310 Thornton, 43, 44, 252, 310 Thorp and Thorpe, 140, 143, 154, 157, 225, 250, 310, 340, 341, 346 Thurston, 341 Tidd, 58 Tierney, 345 Timney, 345 Tingley, 171, 176 Tisdale, 193, 310 Tobey, 343 Todd, 276, 310 Torrey, 224 Towne, 5 Townsend, 71, 72 Trask, 58, 166, 219, 286, 310, 346, 350 Trowbridge, 161, 173 Trull, 18 Trumbull, 3 Tufts, 17,18, 19,110,112, 116, 120, 121,122, 128, 130, 131, 133, 136, 137, 139, 170, 171, 176, 183-85, 187, 196, 199, 200, 204, 205, 211-13, 217, 218, 223, 233, 234, 238, 244, 246, 248,250, 254, 262, 264, 265, 270, 272, 277, 281, 282, 286,288, 295-97, 302-04, 307, 310-12, 320, 321, 349 Tukey, 343 Turell, 24, 25, 30, 33 Turner, 145,