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Joshua Fry Speed, Two recommended highlighted names...
To Whom it may Concern,

Reading the “Joshua Fry Speed” / Wiki page, I noticed the need to highlight Joshua Speeds Marriage to Fanny Henning.

1st: I would ask you to please add her name to the Bio-box that appears at the top of Mr. Speeds page. His marriage to her is not mention there. I believe it is very important to have it appear in that location. She and Joshua were married from 1843 until his death in 1882. They loved each other.

2nd: If you would, also please highlight her name in the article where it appears only once. In the “Further Family Ancestry chapter”. You mention Mr. Speeds marriage to Fanny Henning and yet her name is not even highlighted. All though you do mention the reference you used, from Isabel Ross’s book /The Presidents Wife- Mary Todd a biography. Thank You.

Why I ask for these changes is because I had known that Joshua Speed was married. But when I came to his page and found the only one mention of his wife, Fanny Henning, which seemed to be buried deep in this article. I am sure this was not intentional.

This small nearly hidden fact, makes it appear to anyone looking up Joshua Speed, because of his possible gay relationship with President Lincoln, makes for a false understanding. Lincoln & Speed may very well have been gay lovers. But to hardly mention that Joshua Speed was married and he had written about his love for his wife, makes it appear he was gay, with no other choice of thought for the reader.