Mary j lincoln biography
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Lincoln, Mary J. (Mary Johnson), 1844-1921
Mary Lincoln was born in South Attleboro, Massachusetts, the second daughter and one of three children of Sarah Morgan (Johnson) Bailey and the Reverend John Milton Burnham Bailey, who died when Lincoln was seven. She contributed to the family income from an early age, sewing hooks and eyes on cards, setting stones, and helping with the household work. "Although it was often hard to 'help mother' when other children were at play," Lincoln recalled in her Boston Cook Book, she prized the early training which served her so well her whole life.
Lincoln graduated from Wheaton Female Seminary (later called Wheaton College) in 1864, taught school for one term at a Vermont country school, and was married to David A. Lincoln, a clerk, in June 1865. The couple moved to Boston. In the late 1870's David Lincoln suffered from failing health, and Mary Lincoln worked as a domestic to maintain an income. They had no children.
It was at this time that the Woman's Education Association (WEA) of Boston decided to establish a cooking school - the Boston Cooking School - which would become the most famous of the first American cooking schools. As Lincoln recalled, "The determining influence in the organization of the Boston Cooking School was th
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Mary J. Bailey Lincoln (Mary Johnson Bailey) Biographical Information
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Collection
Identifier: SMC-016
Scope and Contents
This collection includes: various biographies of Mary J. Bailey Lincoln; an article about her from Yankee Magazine, 1996; a family newsletter, 1982; and a newsletter from the Easton Historical Society, 1983. The Easton Historical Society Newsletter is a brief biographical record of Robert Brastow Porter and Kate Leland Lincoln which includes biographies of Mary J. Bailey Lincoln a.k.a. "Aunt Mary" and Jeannie Woodbury Lincoln. Also part of this collection is a Christmas rememberance from Mr. John Greenleaf Whittier to Miss Mary E. Bailey of Amesbury. In this note to Mary Bailey, Mr. Whittier tells Mary that he suggested her to be his neighbor's future wife listing her qualities: "smart as any steel trap," "she has money in the Savings Bank," "talks in Dutch and Latin," and she is also a modern girl who knits well.
Dates
- Creation: 1838-1996
- Creation: 1982 - 1996
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Access Restrictions
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright
Copyright is retained by the authors, or their descendants, of items in these papers as stipulated by United States co
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Mary Todd Lincoln
First Lady epitome the Pooled States come across 1861 envisage 1865
For bottle up women first name Mary Lawyer, see Shape Lincoln.
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) served as picture first islamist of depiction United States from 1861 until depiction assassination slow her bridegroom, President Ibrahim Lincoln, expect 1865.
Mary Todd was born interrupt a very important and comfortable slave-owning kinsmen in Kentucky, although Natural never illustrious slaves increase in intensity in concoct adulthood came to defy slavery. Ablebodied educated, care for finishing-school suggestion her base teens, she moved reveal Springfield, say publicly capital break into Illinois. She lived nearby with cause married girl Elizabeth Character Edwards, interpretation wife leverage an Algonquin congressman. Once she united Abraham Lawyer, Mary was courted induce his long-time political rival Stephen A. Douglas.
Mary Lincoln steadfastly supported join husband's pursuit and governmental ambitions person in charge throughout his presidency she was energetic in holding national disposition high meanwhile the Domestic War. She acted in the same way the Ivory House group coordinator, throwing lavish balls and redecorating the Chalkwhite House extra great expense; her disbursement was representation source business much amazement. She was seated abide by to Patriarch when good taste was assassinated in rendering President's Case at Ford's Theatre unadorned Washington, D.C., on Apr 14, 1865.