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ABRAHAM LINCOLN 301 Barrett (Cincinnati, 1865) ; Linus P. Brockett (Philadelphia, 1865) ; Henry J. Raymond (New York, 1865); Josiah G. Holland (Springfield, Mass., 1866) ; Ward H. Lamon (Boston, 1872) ; William O. Stoddard (New York, 1884) ; Isaac N. Arnold (Chicago, 1885) ; William H. Herndon (New York, 1889) ; and John T. Morse, Jr. (Bos ton, 1893) . Briefer lives have also been written by William D. Howells, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles G. Leland, John Carroll Power, Carl Schurz, and others. The most extensive work upon his life and times yet attempted is by his private secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, in ten volumes (New York, 1890). Four years later the same writers prepared a complete edition in two volumes of Lincoln s Works, comprising his Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings (New York, 1894). See also "Abraham Lincoln. The tribute of a century, 1809-1909. Commemorative of the Lincoln centenary and con taining the principal addresses made in connection therewith." Edited by Nathan W. MacChesney (Chicago, 1910). His wife, MARY TODD, born in Lexington, Ky., December 12, 1818; died in Springfield, 111., July 16, 1882, was the daughter of Robert S. Todd, whose family were among the most influential of the pioneers of Kentucky and Illinois. Her great-