On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

Lincoln wrote, " I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist, even though I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

Sharing this fear, Lincoln wrote and signed a pledge that, if he should lose the election, he would still defeat the Confederacy before turning over the White House:

In his journal for November 6, 1860, he wrote: " At Town House, and cast my vote for Lincoln and the Republican candidates generally — the first vote I ever cast for a President and State officers.

He founded the short lived Campaign for Social Democracy ( CFSD ) thereafter, and wrote a book about events surrounding the by-election called The Future of the Left – Lincoln and After ( 1972 ).

In a review of the book, Time Magazine wrote, " General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line in recent years.

Hay and Nicolay wrote a formal 10-volume biography of Lincoln ( Abraham Lincoln: A History, 1890 ) and prepared an edition of his collected works.

Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln wrote Execreitationes aliquot metaphysicae de Deo ( 1637 ) and spoke often of natural theology during the reign of Charles II.

In the spring of 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, the government of San Marino wrote a letter ( in " perfect Italian on one side, and imperfect but clear English on the other ") to United States President Abraham Lincoln, proposing an " alliance " between the two democratic nations and offering the President honorary San Marino citizenship.

Presaging a theme he would bring to the fore, using similar language, in his Gettysburg Address in 1863, Lincoln wrote: “ You have kindly adverted to the trial through which this Republic is now passing.

Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein wrote The Race to Urga, scheduled to play at the Lincoln Center in 1969, but when Jerome Robbins left the project, it went unproduced.

During the remainder of Paley's life his time was divided between Bishopwearmouth and Lincoln, during which time he wrote Natural Theology, despite his increasingly debilitating illness.

Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

Sandburg also wrote Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, a two-volume biography in 1926, The American Songbag ( 1927 ), and a book of poems called Good Morning, America ( 1928 ) in Elmhurst.

He also wrote a life of St Hugh of Lincoln.

At that point, however, " demand came to an unexpected halt ... No more copies were produced for many years, and if, as is claimed, Abraham Lincoln greeted Stowe in 1862 as ' the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war ,' the work had effectively been out of print for many years.

" Historians are undecided if Lincoln actually said this line, and in a letter that Stowe wrote to her husband a few hours after meeting with Lincoln no mention of this comment was made.

In 1914, Effie Gladding wrote Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway about her travel adventures on the road with her husband Thomas.

Subsequently, Gladding wrote the foreword to the Lincoln Highway Association's first road guide, directing it to women motorists.

In 1927, humorist Frederic Van de Water wrote The Family Flivvers to Frisco, an autobiographical account of him and his wife, a young couple from New York City, piling their belongings and their six-year-old son ( dubbed the “ Supercargo ”) into their Model T Ford and camping their way to San Francisco on the Lincoln Highway, traveling over through twelve states in thirty-seven days.

From 1995 through 2009, author and historian Gregory Franzwa ( 1926 – 2009 ) wrote a state-by-state series of books about the Lincoln Highway.

Lincoln put up with the annoyance rather than risk alienating some associate or friend of a powerful politician or opinion maker.

Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.

The position was eventually filled on his recommendation by Gonzalo " Gonz " Martinez De La Cotera, a friend whose previous band Lincoln had opened for Marcy Playground.

A maternal great-grandfather, Jesse W. Fell, had been a close friend and campaign manager for Abraham Lincoln ; Stevenson often referred to Fell as his favorite ancestor.

Retiring from royal service, he lived in Lincoln from ca 1196 to 1198 where his friend William de Montibus was now chancellor of the Cathedral.

* Ward Hill Lamon ( 1826 – 1893 ), friend, law partner and frequent bodyguard of President Abraham Lincoln, who appointed him U. S. Marshal for the District of Columbia.

A similar study was made of the anatomy of horses ; acknowledging Eakins ' expertise, in 1891 his friend the sculptor William Rudolf O ' Donovan asked him to collaborate on the commission to create bronze equestrian reliefs of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant for the Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Memorial Arch in Grand Army Plaza In Brooklyn.

Brandon Teena is buried in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska, his headstone inscribed with his birth name and the epitaph daughter, sister, & friend.

Rutherford is most widely known for his involvement in the 1847 Matson slave trial, which involved his friend Abraham Lincoln.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village, founded by a French Canadian Roman Catholic priest ( that later converted to Protestantism ) and friend of Abraham Lincoln by the name of Charles Chiniquy, has a total area of, of which, of it is land and 1. 92 % is water.

* David Turnham, friend of U. S President Abraham Lincoln.

* William Herndon — friend and biographer of Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln, as an Illinois state legislator, could not nominate candidates, although he did give the young man advice after he was accepted ; Pickett was actually appointed by Illinois Congressman John T. Stuart, a friend of Pickett's uncle and a law partner of Abraham Lincoln.

John Addams was a founding member of the Illinois Republican Party, served as an Illinois State Senator ( 1855 – 70 ), and supported his friend Abraham Lincoln in his candidacies, for senator ( 1854 ) and the presidency ( 1860 ).

He was ordained priest in 1843, and in the same year became tutor of Lincoln College, where he rapidly made a reputation as a clear and stimulating teacher and as a sympathetic friend of youth.

Among its supporters were judge and future Supreme Court Justice, David Davis and local businessman and land holder Jesse W. Fell whose friend, Abraham Lincoln, was the attorney hired by the Board of Education to draw up legal documents to secure the school's funding Founded as Illinois State Normal University, its name was reflective of its primary mission as a teacher training institution ( at that time called a normal school ).

Lynda also wrote that a friend saw Gravano driving Louie Milito's Lincoln and was able to identify it by damage done to the car before Louie Milito went missing.

He jailed for long terms a variety of spiritual marriage reformers including Paschal Beverly Randolph who had been a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln.

Harlan was a close friend of President Abraham Lincoln and his family.

This bird was named by Audubon after his friend, Thomas Lincoln, of Dennysville, Maine.

He first applied for permission to travel to the battle sites to an old friend, General Winfield Scott, and eventually he made his application to President Lincoln himself.

Pope was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Nathaniel Pope, a prominent Federal judge in early Illinois Territory and a friend of lawyer Abraham Lincoln.