Mary lynn lightfoot biography of abraham lincoln
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Register of Informants.
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The brief biographical uppgifter given below represent an attempt to afford the reader some indication of who William H. Herndon's informants were and to suggest the kind of relationship, if any, each may have had with Abraham Lincoln. In consulting these entries, the reader is cautioned to bear in mind certain considerations. First, as most of these informants are not historic figures in the ordinary sense, basic information about them is generally hard to come by and has frequently proved unobtainable. In some cases it has not even been possible to ascertain birth and death dates. By contrast, the lives of some otherwise very obscure informants, thanks to genealogists and family historians, are reasonably well documented. Thus the upplysning available to the editors has been highly uneven, and this circumstance is necessarily reflected in the entries.
Second, while the editors have endeavored to indicate possible sources of prejudice, the biases of Hernd
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Lincoln Conspirators
It may be surprising to learn that there were eight conspirators in President Lincoln’s assassination. This is because they were also trying to kill the vice president and Secretary of State. The conspirators and their roles are listed below:
Mary Surratt
Born Mary Elizabeth Jenkins in 1823, was from Maryland. She married John Harrison Surratt when she was 17, and together, they bought massive amounts of land near Washington. Together, she and her husband had three children: Isaac, Anna, and John, Jr. After her husband’s death in 1864, Mary moved to Washington, DC, on High Street. She rented part of her property – a tavern that her husband had built – to a man named John Lloyd, who was a retired police officer.
John, Jr, her eldest son, had become familiar with a man named John Wilkes Booth during his time as a Confederate spy. Because of this connection, when Booth was plotting Lincoln’s assassination with his co-conspirators, he felt perfectly at hom