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Photograph of Mary Lincoln

Ford's Theatre

Ford's Theatre
Washington, D.C., United States

Most biographers and historians write about the first presidential assassination in the United States, not the personal tragedy of a wife losing her husband and the father of her children. Mary Lincoln suffered many losses both before and after Lincoln’s assassination, including the deaths of three of her four sons.

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