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Donna McCreary · (This post was last modified: 09-15-2017 12:08 AM by Donna McCreary.)

(09-13-2017 07:29 AM)Gene C Wrote: Was one of Dennis Hank's daughters living with the Lincoln's for a while? I don't know if we could consider her a hired girl or not, but I believe she did help out around the house and may have left because she felt Mary treated poorly?

Yes, Harriet Hanks lived with the Lincoln family while she attended school in Springfield. Her interview is in Herndon's Informants under the name Harriet Chapman.
She did not say anything about doing chores around the house, but I think it is generally assumed that she did.

(09-13-2017 02:48 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Donna, it's awhile ago that I read it, and I don't remember exactly how much there was about the Lincolns' hired girls, but I think there was something:
https://books.google.de/books?id=ZoB0CQA...IQ6AEIDTAB

Thanks, I have read this book, and it mentions some of the hired girls, but not all of them.

Thanks everyone.
I was able to contact the curator of the Lincoln Home who sent me a pamphlet that they published a few years ago. It only mentions the girls who were African American, Irish, and Portuguese, so if there were others, we do not know.