Brief Life History of Robert Todd
When Robert Todd Lincoln was born on 1 August 1843, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, his father, President Abraham Lincoln, was 34 and his mother, Mary Ann Todd, was 24. He married Mary Eunice Harlan on 24 September 1868, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 30 years and Washington, Washington, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 26 July 1926, in Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States.
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- Robert Lincoln in household of Abram Lincoln, "United States Census, 1850"
- Robert T Lewncoln, "District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950"
- Robert Todd Lincoln, "Find A Grave Index"
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1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Lincoln, so named from an original British name Lindo- ‘lake’ + Latin colonia ‘settlement, colony’. The place was an important administrative center during the Roman occupation of Britain and in the Middle Ages it was a center for the manufacture of cloth, including the famous ‘Lincoln green’.
African American: adoption of the surname in 1 above, in honor of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the US, who abolished slavery.
History: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), 16th president of the US, was the son of an illiterate laborer, descended from Samuel Lincoln, who had emigrated from England to MA in 1637.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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