Mary lincoln beckwith biography of albert

When Albert F Beckwith was born in 1846, in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Barzillai Beckwith, was 43 and his mother, Mercy P Wilcox, was 43. He married Fannie L. Parish on 12 April 1868, in Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1880 and Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1910. He died on 4 November 1911, at the age of 65, and was buried in Water Street Cemetery, Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.

MaryAnn"Molly"Lincoln formerly Todd

Daughter of Robert Smith Todd and Elizabeth Ann (Parker) Todd

Sister of Elizabeth Porter (Todd) Edwards, Levi Oldham Todd, Frances Jane (Todd) Wallace, Ann Maria (Todd) Smith, Robert Parker Todd, George Rogers Clark Todd, Margaret (Todd) Kellogg[half], Samuel Briggs Todd[half], David Humphreys Todd[half], Martha K. (Todd) White[half], Emilie Pariet (Todd) Helm[half], Alexander Humphreys Todd[half], Elodie Breck Jane (Todd) Dawson[half] and Katharine Bodley (Todd) Herr[half]

Mother of Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln and Thomas Lincoln

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LINCOLN, MARY (TODD). Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on 13 December 1818, Mary (Todd) Lincoln, first lady of the United States, was descended from two of central Kentucky's best-known families-the Todds and the Parkers. Her grandfather, Levi Todd, had been instrumental in the establishment of Lexington. Her father, Robert Smith Todd, was a prosperous cotton merchant, businessman, and Whig politician. Her mother, Eliza (Parker) Todd, died in childbirth when Mary Todd was six. Shortly thereafter her father married Elizabeth Humphreys, of Frankfort, Kentucky. Mary lived with them and their children in a brick house on West Main Street in Lexington. As a girl Mary attended John Ward's school in Lexington and then Charlotte Mentelle's boarding school, across from Henry Clay's estate, Ashland.

Mary had three sisters:

• Elizabeth Todd Edwards (1813-1888),
• Frances "Fanny" Todd Wallace (1815

When Albert Beckwith was born on 12 January 1845, in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, his father, Daniel W. Beckwith Sr., was 23 and his mother, Mary Lorinda Hatch, was 23. He married Elizabeth Berridge on 16 December 1886, in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Ashtabula Township, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States in 1900. He died on 21 February 1908, in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Edgewood, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States.

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation).

"President Lincoln" redirects here. For the troopship, see USS President Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln (LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederacy, playing a major role in the abolition of slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.

Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky, and was raised on the frontier. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. representative. Angered by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which opened the territories to slavery, he became