Abraham and Mary met in Springfeild IL. She had moved there to live with her older Sister. Abraham and Mary met in Springfeild IL. She had moved there to live with her older Sister.
He met his future wife, Mary Todd.
Abraham married Mary Todd in 1842, 3 years later when they met and abraham was 30 years old and Mary was 23 years old
They met at a dance in Springfield, IL where Lincoln lived and Mary Todd's sister lived. Mary more or less lived with her sister at the time. Mary's sister was married to Ninian W. Edwards, son of the more famous Ninian Edwards.
Mary Todd Lincoln grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. As a young woman, she frequently visited her married sister Elizabeth Edwards in Springfield Illinois, which is where she met Abe Lincoln.
Abraham married Mary Todd in 1842, 3 years later when they met and abraham was 30 years old and Mary was 23 years old
Both Lincoln and Mary Todd belonged to a group known as the Coterie, dedicated to the cultivation of the arts, to political happenings in their fast-growing state, to the causes that excited the scholars of the day. Mary was living with her sister Elizabeth wife of Ninian Wirt Edwards, son of a former governor of Illinois. In the home of Mrs. Edwards, the social circle of the Coterie rounded for parties, dances, sleigh rides, political rallies, picnics and other excursions. It is at one of there gatherings, likely a dance, where Lincoln met Mary Todd in 1839.
In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, from a wealthy slaveholding family based in Lexington, Kentucky.[20] They met in Springfield in December 1839,[21] and were engaged sometime around that Christmas.[22] A wedding was set for January 1, 1841, but the couple split as the wedding approached.[21]They later met at a party, and then married on November 4, 1842, in the Springfield mansion of Mary's married sister.
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Nothing is recorded in scripture or tradition of how they met. However, both lived in the village of Nazareth and probably knew each other from childhood.
Mary Met him in Penola.
Springfield, is where Lincoln's Law practice was located, and it was where he met Mary Todd, his future wife. The two were married in Mary's sister's mansion, in Springfield, Illinois, on November 4, 1842. They then bought a home in Springfield, near Lincoln's Law office, in 1844.