Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

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It was after Mary's death that she wrote an a letter to the editor stating Mary was “more radically opposed to slavery” than Abraham Lincoln. "Tribute to the Dead from Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm," Chicago Daily Tribune, July 20, 1882

Jane Swisshelm(1815-1884) was a journalist and newspaper publisher, abolitionist, crusader for women's rights and the rights of Native Americans. She was friends with Edwin Stanton, supported Lincoln's presidential campaigns and visited him in the White House. When she divorced and lost her inheritance and it was Mary Lincoln and Edwin Stanton who encouraged her to sue her husband. Please Google her and read about her amazing life. Here are a few links.

Title:Crusader and feminist; letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865; read for free here. https://www.loc.gov/item/35000912/
http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/resi...1815-1884/