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WN llUTMODQIiJ was comely, of agree
ablo dlnpoitltlon, llkowlBO bright ns
to nil theso fnctB the accounts uro
one. Sho was, moreover, of-oxcollent
Btock, could boast of the very boat
southern blood, and could count
among hor ancestors ono of tho sign
rrR of tho Declaration of Indopon-
donee, a chief Justice of tho Supreme
court of tho nation and n leader In tho American
congrcflH. Hor father unB an Illlnola pioneer, orig
inally from .South Carolina, and long a resident of
Kentucky. Ho wns well-to-do and nblo to afford
hor better than tho usual Rohoollng of tho west In
that prlmltlvo plnco and period. It was at his hotel,
or tavern, as then termed, In Now Salem, 111 , In
1834 that Abraham Lincoln met her. He wns 2G
yearn old whon ho camo to board at the Rutledgn
tnvorn, wan puHtmaster of tho vlllago, a surveyor
by profcHHlnn and n member of tho stnto legislature.
Hut Ann, though thuH circumstanced, wns un
happy; sho hnd, In a missing lover, an ncho of tho
heart. tleforo Lincoln appeared on tho sceno one
James McNeill, a pros
porous young merchant
and farmer of tho plnco,
had won hor affections.
Bho wns only 17 whon
this occurred, and tho
family council therefore
agreed that, for n time
at least, tho marrlago
could wait. ' This was
tho state of affairs when'
Lincoln camo to tho Rut
ledge house to bonrd.
McNeill had accumu
lated 112,000 in Now Sa
lem and his prospects
were still bright; but In
3883 ho bognn to display
a strong desire for a
change Ho wantod to
go back east, ho Raid,
to Now York stato, to
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visit Ills peoplo thoro and bring his pnronts back
with him. And then they would marry. So tho
following spring ho ftold out IiIh storo and start
ed. The Journey In that day was a long and slow
ono, but It was months, far boyond tho usual,
before they heard from him. Ho hnd beon down,
ho wrote, with chills and fovcr. Ho wrote again
a few times after, but at length cut short tho
correspondence altogether.
' It was through Lincoln, as postmaster of the
little western vlllago, that tho girl rocelvod her
letter. An absent swootheart and no letters
wo can Imagine her state of mind. It was not
long until ovory one know It. Tho girl then con
fldod In friends a confession of her lover's,
.namely, that his truo namo was not McNeill, but
McNamor; that he hnd como west to rctrlove a
fortune lost by his fnthor In business; and had
changod his name to bo rid, for a time, of his
people and thus bo tho freer to do so. When
this story was mado public, as It speedily was,
tho hard common boiibo of Now Salom naturally
rejected It. Thoro wertf reasons, good ones, pub
lic opinion Bald; criminal, porhaps -who knows?
some oven hinted. Tho girl was nigh' heart
broken. Mcanwhllo blossomed In tho heart of Lincoln
sympathy first and then nffectlon for hor. It
was long, however, oro ho revealed Ills feelings
to hor, and longer still ero sho would listen to
him. At length, however, convinced thnt McNeill
waii gone for good, sho consented In 183S to tako
the Lincoln name. Hut first sho was to go nway
for a while and finish at an academy, during
which time ho was to contlnuo his law Rtudles,
and when sho had ended her course and ho had
been admitted to the bar, the next spring, they
would bo married.
All vory good; this plan wns followed; but tho
girl, It seems, though sho loved Lincoln, could
not dismiss so easily remembrance of her old
lover. "A torturing conflict," wo nro told, "of
memory, lovo, conscience, doubt nnd morbidness
lay llkfl a shndow across hor happiness nnd
woro upon her until she fell sorlously HI. Event
ually her condition became hopoloss. Lincoln
was sent for, thoy passod-nn hour of anguish to
gether, and soon after this deathbed parting,
August 25, 1835, sho died.
Lincoln took It hard. That melancholy which
was of his fiber and which marked his faoo took
full possession of him, Ho wnn found by a
friend, n certain Howling Greon, wandering about
muttering to himself, as If his mind hnd beon
affected. Groon took him to his homo and kopt
Mm thoro until onco moro ho wns himself, Ann
Rutledge was burlod In Concord cemetery, near
New Salom. "My heart Is burled thoro," her sor
rowing lovor snld after tho funeral. Curiously
onough, McNeill, or McNamor, did return to New
Balera Boon after Ann's death. And bis story
The 8econd Affair
In tho fall of
the year 1836,
when Lincoln
was 29, a woman
of Lincoln's ac
quaintance who
wns going to
Kentucky on a
visit, proposed,
In a spirit of
fun, to bring back
a sister of hers.
Miss Mary
Owens, for him
to marry. Lin
coln laughingly
accepted the pro-'
posal. Time pass
ed; the lady duly
mado the Journey and duly returned, sister In
company, suro enough 1 Lincoln was aston
ished. Tho bride proposed appeared to him a
trifle too willing, but he gavo her the benefit
of the doubt
Thoro were other objections to her; for one
thing, that, while her face was attractive, she
had no figure she was uncommonly stout.
For another, his own financial condition. He
bad settled at Springfield, capital of the state,
and began here tho prnctlco of law, without,
however, substantial result as yet. Hut he
had told her slstor, ho says In letters quoted
by Miss Tarboll, that he would take tho lady
for hotter or worso, and this ho must do since
It was a point of honor with him to stick to
his word, particularly where, as in this case,
othorB hnd boon Induced to net upon it.
Ho corresponded with this lndy, and was
firm In his resolution to mnrry her, nnd even
planned how ho might get nlong after tho
marriage Ho took tho precaution to write
her from Springfield and gavo her a strong hint
of tho poverty of his resources, asking her at tho
samo tlmo to "deliberate maturely." As this,
howover, drow from hor no decision, nftor wait
ing throo monthB ho wrote ngain, putting tho
matter between them squarely up to her. "What
I wish," said ho, "Is that our further acquaint
ance should depend upon yourself."
Miss Owona had the discernment to perceive
his feelings. Sho answered, declining his offor of
marrlago. Sho found him, sho said, "doficlent In
those llttlo HnkB which go to make up the chain
of a woman's happlnoss." Lincoln was "morti
fied," so ho wrote a friend; his "vanity wounded"
by tho reflection that he had beon too stupid to
understand hor, whllo, at the same time, never
doubting that ho understood hor perfectly.
The Third Affair.
It was In 1839 or 1840 that Lincoln met Miss
Mary Todd of Lexington. Ky., whom ho afterward
mnrrled. Their courtship was Interesting and
rather nnlmntcd. One of Its Incidents was a
broken engagement, and that, according to ono
authority, on tho very day set for thd wedding.
Lincoln waB thirty or thirty-one whon Miss
Todd came to Springfield, and had been practic
ing law in that plnco for some throo or four yonrs.
Tho lady was the daughter of Robort S. Todd, a
prominent Kentucklan, and, wbb living, whon
Lincoln mndo her ncqualntnnco, with her sister,
Mrs. Nlnlan W. Edward, tho wlfo of one of tho
notables of Springfield. She was handsome,
stylish, wlttynnd spirited, and soon after hor
arrival in tho Illinois capital begau to cut n fig
uro In Its society and to draw In her train tho
moro prominent beaux of the town, among others
who afterward roso to distinction, besides Lin
coln, Stephen A. Douglas, tho "Little Giant" Int
er of tho stump nnd sonato, and Shields, hero of
tho Mexican war, nnd one of tho most plctur
esquo figures In American Ufo.
Ero long It bof,an to bo npparont ihnt among
theso suitors nnd frequenters of the Edwards
mansion Lincoln was her favorite. As tho Inti
macy with him grew hor relations protested; ho
was not of xholr Bort; they wore wealthy nnd
well-bred, nnd looked on him as of tho plebclnn
cast, as ono socially Inferior. Ho was of the
humblest origin, crude and unpolished In man
nors, nnd, wOrst of nil, was poor. Miss Todd,
howover, wus unmoved by tholr objections. Sho
loved him, believed In him, Bccma to havo di
vined his quality nnd hnd faith In his future.
In 1810 thoy engaged to marry.
Rut, ns tho proverb has It, "tho course of true
lovo never did run smooth." So, at least, It turn
ed out In their enso. It Is not perhaps strnngo,
considering tho dlffcrenco In their tastes, their
Ideals and breeding, that thoy did soon fall out
Miss Todd was an exacting sweetheart; Mr. Lin
coln carelesB.
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Ho was melancholic, constitutionally so; In
cllncd, In such a matter, wo know, to the most
morbid view. The upshot was, at all evontB,
that on Now Year's day, 1841, tho very day, as
ono account has It, which ad been set for the
wedding, he broke tho engagement According
to Herndon, ono of his biographers, who was also
his law partner, he broke It as publicly as pos
sibly by falling to make his appearance on tho
appointed wedding day. . The engagement was
broken, no doubt of that; but Herndon's account
of Its breaking Is not well authenticated.
Lincoln took this trouble deeply to heart. He
abandoned his business and went away to forget
It tho following summer, making a visit with that
purpose to his old friend Speed In Louisville, Ky.
Prom thlB trip he returned in a better framo of
mind. This, perhaps, because ho had been called
upon thoro to counsel with and resolve some
doubts of Speed regarding his own approaching
marriage. Lincoln and Miss Todd remained un
reconciled for a year and a half. In the summer
of 1842 they were brought togother unexpectedly
by mutual friends, and met secretly several
times later at the house of Mr. Simeon Francis.
At length tho engagement was renewed. This
came about through a clrcumstanco of serio
comic features In which they both had part.
This circumstance Is a story In itself. It In
volves, besides the two principles, James Shields
the same afore referred to as one of Miss
Todd's admirers. He was an Irishman of ability
and courage, as he afterward proved on the bat
tlefield In the Mexican war, when, to cleanse a
wound through the lungs, a silk handkerchief
was drawn through his body.
At the tlmo of the Lincoln affair Shields was a
leading Democrat of Illinois and held the offlc
of auditor of stato. He was a quick, Impulsive
man, whose disposition put him often on the
defensive with the Whig leaders, for the Repub
lican party was then unborn. Of these Whig
leaders In that Btate Lincoln then was one. Now,
it was the .custom at that time to carry on much
political controversy through tho press by means
of personal communications, such ns wo know
now as "Letters from the People." Great space
and nttentton were given these in tho newspapers
In that day.
Just about that date Lincoln furnished such a
letter ta. Springfield paper; It wjia signed "Aunt
RebeccaT and In It Shields, whoso vanity and gal
lantry often mado him a mark, was most unmer
cifully ridiculed. It made a hit, this letter, and
Miss Todd and a friend, its real authors by the
way, followed It up with another nnd with some
doggerel rhyme, which reached the paper In the
samo manner as tho first.
Springfield laughed loudly at theso communi
cations not so much at tho matter of them as
at the anger displayed by Shields. He acted
promptly, sent a friend at once to tho editor of
the paper to demand tho name of the writer of
tho articles. Dueling' then was still a common
Incident of public life, and the editor called upon
Lincoln, who, unwilling to bring the ladles Into
the affair, gavo his own name as the author.
While he was at Trcmont, on the law circuit
fifteen dayB later, two friends of his overtook him
and advised him that Shields was on tho way
following him up to challenge. Shields and a
friend arrived shortly, and Lincoln was soon In
receipt of a written demand for the "satisfaction
due a gentleman" In a full, positive and absolute
retraction. "This may prevent," tho missive said
further, "cqnscquencles which no ono will regret
moro than myself."
Lincoln refused to apologize Seconds were Im
mediately named Whltesldos, editor of tho paper
In which tho matter had appeared, for Shields;
E. H. Merryman for Lincoln. Tho seconds talked
of peace, but Whltesldos refused to discuss such
a settlement with his principal. "Why," ho said,
"he'd challengo me next, and as soon cut my
throat as not!"
That night thoy all went back to Springfield,
with Lincoln's preliminaries to follow, slnco'he
wns the challenged party, namely these:
Weapons, cavalry broadswords.
Tlmo, Thursday evonlng nt 5 o'clock.
Placo, within three miles of Alton, on the op
posite side of the river Mississippi.
On tho 2nd of September. 1842, they were all
'upon the ground. The arrangements for tho af
fair wcro about comploted when tho party was
Joined by frlonds. Among them was Colonel
John II. Hardin, who know Lincoln well. He
hnd been warned of the fight by Eliza Lott. who
hnd heard of It whon tho duelists stopped to
brenkrast going out. Colonel Hnrdln nnd tho rest
managed to sntlsfy -Shields that Lincoln wns not
tho author of tho nrtlcles, hut was shielding nn
other, nnd to nld tho seconds In settling tho trou
ble "with honor," ns tho phrase Is, "to all con
cerned." Less than two months lator a marriage license
for Abraham Lincoln nnd Mary Todd wbb Issued.
Miss Tarboll describes tho event ns "almost Im
promptu." The ceromony Interrupted a meeting
or the Episcopal Sewing society at tho house of
Miss Todd's slstor, the Mrs. Edwards already
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