Talk:William Wallace Lincoln

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- Have conflated two different people - Dr. William Smith Wallace is the person William Wallace Lincoln was named for and was the husband of Frances Jane Todd. "Kitty" Todd (one of Mary Todd Lincoln's other sisters) - Kitty Todd's first husband died in 1866 (after Willie Lincoln's death) and she married a somewhat similarly-named name William Wallace Herr. They are two different people. Sources? How about the following:
 * Page 184 & Page 146 & Page 211 of House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War, by Stephen Berry, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - publisher.
 * Official Lincoln Library
 * Wallace graduated from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1824, and in 1836, he settled in Springfield, where he practiced medicine until his death. In 1839, Wallace married Frances Todd, Mary Lincoln's sister. Abraham and Mary named William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln after Wallace. In 1849, President Zachary Taylor appointed Wallace as a pension agent on Abraham Lincoln's recommendation. In 1850, Wallace owned $6,000 in real estate. By 1860, Wallace had amassed $10,000 in real estate, with a personal estate of $1,000. In 1861, Lincoln appointed Wallace as Paymaster in the United States Army.


 * Lincoln Bicentennial website
 * William Wallace Lincoln was born about ten months after his brother Eddie died on February 1, 1850. He was named after Dr. William Wallace, the husband of Mary’s sister Frances, and the physician who nursed Eddie Lincoln in his final days.

Shearonink (talk) 04:19, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Page 31 of The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania: A History and Guide by Bradley Hoch, published by Penn State Press.
 * My mistake. Sorry for the bother. Cladeal832 (talk) 04:50, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries. I had to look all that up, I thought maybe this Herr fellow was the right person for the job so wanted to make sure. Personally, I had no idea "William Wallace" was such a popular name in the 1820s-30s when all these similarly-named men would have been born. Shearonink (talk) 18:40, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I guess she had enough brothers-in-law to have two with the same name. Anyhow thanks again for putting in all the double checking. Cladeal832 (talk) 03:26, 26 July 2022 (UTC)