Historic shrines of America; being the story of one hundred and twenty historic buildings and the pioneers who made them notable . o do allin my power to make her happy and contented. Andthere is nothing I can imagine that would make me moreunhappy than to fail in the effort. I know I should bemuch happier with you than the way I am, provided Isaw no sign of discontent in you. Miss Owen declined to go to Springfield, because shefelt that Lincoln was deficient in those little linkswhich make up the chain of a womans happiness. Five years later, on November 4, 1842, Lincoln mar-ried Miss Mary To
Historic shrines of America; being the story of one hundred and twenty historic buildings and the pioneers who made them notable . o do allin my power to make her happy and contented. Andthere is nothing I can imagine that would make me moreunhappy than to fail in the effort. I know I should bemuch happier with you than the way I am, provided Isaw no sign of discontent in you. Miss Owen declined to go to Springfield, because shefelt that Lincoln was deficient in those little linkswhich make up the chain of a womans happiness. Five years later, on November 4, 1842, Lincoln mar-ried Miss Mary Todd, a member of a prominent Ken-tucky family, who had come to Springfield in 1839 tolive with her sister, Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards. Thehouse in which she spent the three years before her mar-riage was one of the handsomest in the town, and wasa centre of social gayety. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards op-posed the marriage to the poor and plebeian lawyer;they urged the folly of exchanging a cultured home forthe surroundings to which Lincoln would take her. Butshe knew her own mind, and she went with Lincoln tothe home he provided for ABRAHAM LINCOLN S HOISK, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. /•/,,.;-- bijE. (. HallSee page 369
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