In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and Edward Baker Lincoln ( Eddie ) in 1846.

Lincoln's father-in-law was based in Lexington, Kentucky ; he and others of the Todd family were either slave owners or slave traders.

Lincoln was close to the Todds, and he and his family occasionally visited the Todd estate in Lexington.

The term isotope was coined by Margaret Todd as a suitable name for different atoms that belong to the same element.

In June 2007 a new publishing company, headed by Edwin Voskamp and Eric Todd, was formed with the express purpose of bringing Amber DRPG back into print.

Erickson was also fired in 2012, and replaced by Todd Graham.

In the top of the 10th inning, with a runner on second base, Baltimore pitcher Todd Williams was signaled to intentionally walk the Marlins ' Miguel Cabrera.

The sketch usually showed the panelists drinking lots of beer and eating lots of Polish sausage, and often featured Todd getting so agitated about what was happening with the Bears that he suffered a heart attack, but quickly recovered ( through self-administered CPR ).

His replacement was Todd Helton, who had been the club's first-round draft pick in 1995 out of the University of Tennessee.

Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd.

Michael Moore was the son of Todd and Dana Moore.

New Zealand's top diplomat in Fiji at the time was Todd Cleaver.

Additionally, Guillermo Mota, who was acquired by Florida in 2004 along with Paul Lo Duca and Juan Encarnacion and was expected to be their closer, was inconsistent, and the Marlins gave the closer job to veteran Todd Jones, whom they signed in the offseason.

He named this concept isotope meaning ' same place ' - the word ' isotope ' was initially suggested to him by Margaret Todd.

According to castmate Todd Bridges ' autobiography Killing Willis, Coleman was made to work long hours on the set of Diff ' rent Strokes despite his age and health problems, and this contributed to his being unhappy and separating himself from the cast.

She was launched by Holt's widow Dame Zara at the Todd Shipyards in Los Angeles on 3 May 1969, and was the first American warship to bear the name of a foreign leader.

Spader was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of teachers Jean ( née Fraser ) and Stoddard Greenwood " Todd " Spader.

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

Todd McCarthy in Variety noted that Dunst was " just right " for the family.

From 1980 to 1995, the Ballet was run by dancer and choreographer Todd Bolender.

Their first release, " Buick 59 ," ( based on Todd Rhodes's double-entendre R & B hit " Rocket 69 ") was backed with a ballad called

Writer / director Todd Solondz, a favorite cult director, had his first major success with the black comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse ( 1995 ), a brutally-honest look at the persecution of a young junior high student by her classmates.

The two most puzzling omissions were first baseman Todd Helton and shortstop Troy Tulowitzki.

Todd Grimshaw began to question his sexuality in 2003, becoming Corrie's first regular homosexual character, after years of criticism about non-representation.

In 1993, American musician Todd Rundgren created the first music-only fully interactive CD, No World Order, for the CD-i.

The actor Richard Todd, who performed in The Longest Day and was amongst the first of the Allied soldiers to land in Normandy, said the film was " Rubbish.

Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the murderer of the Victorian penny dreadful The String of Pearls ( 1846 – 1847 ).

Sweeney Todd first appeared in a story titled The String of Pearls: A Romance.

Claims that Sweeney Todd was a real person were first made in the introduction to the 1850 ( expanded ) edition of The String of Pearls and have persisted to the present day.

* Sweeney Todd ( 1926 ), the first silent film version of the story, starring G. A.

This version of the story was the first to give Todd a more sympathetic motive: he is a wrongfully imprisoned barber who returns to London after 15 years in an Australian penal colony under the new name Sweeney Todd, only to find that the judge responsible for his imprisonment has raped his young wife and driven her to suicide, and adopted his daughter.

", written by Jim Poyser and broadcast in June 2004 had aimless aristocrat Viscount Belport ( Paul Rider ) and his servant Ned ( Jason Done ) joining the police force under Sir Robert Peel and encountering demon barber Sweeney Todd ( Jonathan Keeble ) on their first case.

* The String of Pearls etext of the 1846 / 47 penny dreadful that first featured Sweeney Todd

The first white settlement in the county was made in 1791 by Amos Todd, Joseph Beebe and Rhoda Todd Beebe, emigrants from Connecticut who paddled up the Tioughnioga River from Windsor, to live near the head of navigation in the Town of Homer.

A documentary by Todd Kwait about the history and influence of jug band music, Chasin ' Gus ' Ghost, first screened at the 2007 San Francisco Jug Band Festival.

Following the self-release of its debut album, Motorcade of Generosity, the band was signed to Capricorn Records in 1995 and released its first single, " Rock ' n ' Roll Lifestyle ", which hit number 35 on the Modern Rock Tracks music chart and was featured on MTV's 120 Minutes ; French and Nelson then left the band, and were replaced by Todd Roper and Victor Damiani.

In 1996 Todd Glassey designed the first Digital Timestamp Server for Email and other content validation and created the first instances of " GeoSpatial Keying " a complex cryptographic process for using time and location data to access or ' unlock ' certain key services.

He lost in the first round of the 1989 Australian Open to Christian Saceanu and the first round of Wimbledon to Todd Woodbridge.

Sampras won the first of his two Australian Open titles in 1994, defeating American Todd Martin in the final.

Sampras won his first two events on tour, defeating Todd Martin in both finals ( one of which included Sampras's first trip to his ancestral homeland, Greece ).