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Hello, I'm the person referred to above as contacting Roger Norton about Mary Lincoln's travels to Lake Superior. She did in fact travel on a steamer up from Chicago to Bayfield, WI, in the late summer of 1867. I wrote an article about this trip which was published in the Summer 2012 issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. It is not yet available online at their website but will soon be. I do have some photocopies of the article if anyone is interested. It was very interesting uncovering details about this little known chapter in her life and I'm indebted to several librarians and archivists without whom I wouldn't have had enough info to create an article. But yes, according to newspaper accounts of the time, she did make this trip, accompanied by Tad, and did visit several Wisconsin and Michigan towns along the way. I'm still interested in researching more about her so find this discussion group very interesting. So thank you Roger for inviting me to join this group!
Cyndy Irvine