Who is this person?

[RJNorton]

Who is the person who wrote this description of Mary Owens?

"I knew Miss Owens always — my cousin. Knew her in Ill. about 1834 or 6. Knew her from a child in Kentucky.

She was about 28 when in Ill. Black eyes — medium sized, about 5/5 feet or 5/6 Black hair, weighed about 150. Symmetrical face with roundish features, unusually fresh. Good natured — excellent disposition. She was a very intellectual woman, well educated and well raised — Free and social — Beautiful even teeth. She was gay and lively, mirthfulness prominent. Her mind was better cultivated than Miss Rutledge's. She now says that though opposed to Abe and his advances still he was one of the best and most honest men that she ever knew. She dressed neatly — grandly, never — though she could well have afforded it."