Why She Married Him

I haven't been feeling well, so no writing has been done.  When your head is full and pounding, the throat is sore, and coughing is your past time, nothing much is completed.  So instead, I am going to put up this wonderful little story about why Mary Todd married Abraham Lincoln...Happy Belated Birthday to a great American President.

WHY SHE MARRIED HIM.

There was a "social" at Lincoln's house in Springfield, and "Abe" introduced his wife to Ward Lamon, his law partner. Lamon tells the story in these words:

"After introducing me to Mrs. Lincoln, he left us in conversation. I remarked to her that her husband was a great favorite in the eastern part of the State, where I had been stopping.

"'Yes,' she replied, 'he is a great favorite everywhere. He is to be President of the United States some day; if I had not thought so I never would have married him, for you can see he is not pretty.

"'But look at him, doesn't he look as if he would make a magnificent President?'"

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Title: Lincoln's Yarns and Stories

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