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Biografía. Nacida en Lexington, Kentucky, del matrimonio entre Robert Smith Todd, vaquero, y Elizabeth Parker-Todd, Mary creció en el confort y el refinamiento. [1] A la edad de 6 años, su madre Elizabeth fallece y su padre se casa poco después con Elizabeth Betsy Humphreys-Todd (1826). Mary tuvo una relación difícil con su madrastra.
Robert Smith Todd had been educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky and became clerk of the Kentucky state house of delegates, a state assemblyman, and a state senator. He and his wife, Eliza Parker, had seven children of whom Mary was the fourth. Mary would later marry Abraham Lincoln. The above...
Robert Smith Todd, the father of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, was a businessman and politician in the state of Kentucky. He held political positions in both the city of Lexington and the capitol in Frankfort. Todd married his second cousin Elizabeth Parker and they had seven children, including Mary Todd who would go on to marry President Abraham Lincoln.
When Robert Smith Todd Sr was born on 25 February 1791, in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States, his father, Levi Todd, was 34 and his mother, Jane Briggs, was 29. He married Elizabeth Ann Parker in November 1812, in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters.
Robert Smith. Todd. Birth 25 February 1791 - Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Death 17 July 1849 - Liberty Heights, Fayette County, Kentucky.
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was born the third child to Eliza Ann Parker Todd and Robert Smith Todd on December 13, 1818. Before Mary Ann was born, her eldest sister Elizabeth was born, followed by her sister Frances. The Todd family lived in a quaint two-story, nine-room L-shaped house on Short Street in Lexington, KY.
8 de mar. de 2022 · When Robert Smith Todd died, then, Abraham Lincoln owned slaves. That much is unarguable. In fact inheritance through a wife was a common way for men in those days to acquire slaves, as many men in the Lincolns’ social and political circles did ― Senator Douglas of the debates, for one, who obtained a plantation of 2,500 acres and a hundred slaves through his wife, Martha Martin of North ...
