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In 1857, Jefferson Davis Jr. was born, His birth almost cost his mother, Varina Davis her life. While she was in critical condition, a snowstorm swept the city of Washington leaving drifts so high that a friend and neighbor who was nursing her could not make it across the street. Our "mystery person", who did not know her, had his own thoroughbred horses harnessed to a sleigh, and had personally driven another of Varina's nurses to her door. The harness had broken, and the trip had been made at some peril. "This service, introduced us to him...", Varina wrote in 1890.

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