Jessie Harlan Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter Jessie had a wild streak. ALPLM historian Christian McWhirter covers one incident from her life in this video, which is... | By Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum | Jessie is born on November 6th, 1875. She passed away on January 4th, 1948. Jessie is fascinating. She attends Iowa Wesleyan and while she is there she falls hard for the hunk of the football team. Warren the dude Beckwith his other nickname was The Lady Killer. Jessie is madly in love with him and attempts to elope with him. She's back in Chicago shortly thereafter and Secret arranges for Warren to meet her at the train station in Chicago. They go to Milwaukee at two thirty. They get married. By four o'clock, she is back in Chicago and goes back to her parents place. Uh yeah, they check into a hotel in Milwaukee in between there. Robert and Mary get tipped off by a reporter that she has in fact gotten married and this is a enormous national scandal.