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AL = Abraham Lincoln WHH = William H. Herndon MTL = Mary Todd Lincoln
Note: Only those members of AL's mother's family referred to by WHH's informants are included here; others are listed in the appendix (pp. 779¬83).
Abell, Bennett: AL boarded with, 69; visited by Mary Owens, 237; mentioned, 263, 374, 441n, 738, 750
Abell, Elizabeth: biographical sketch of, 738; letters from, 544, 556¬57; sister of Mary Owens, 530, 544, 738, 774; engagement of AL and Mary Owens, 544, 738; AL's dispo‚sition, 556; AL's courtship of Ann Rutledge, 556; AL's condition after the death of Ann Rutledge, 557; AL good natured, 557; foxed pants for AL, 557; AL stayed with Abells, 557; mentioned, 69¬70, 441n, 531,
Abell, Nancy Owens, 750
Abell, Samuel, 531
Abell house, 441, 530, 531
Abolitionism, 529, 717, 766
Abolitionists, 149, 150, 482, 519, 654, 680¬ 81, 717n, 738
Abrams, Mrs., 448
Adair, Gen., 585
¿Adam and Eve's Wedding Song,î 249¬50
Adams, Charles Francis, 688, 691
Adams, John, 540
Adams, John Quincy: in Jackson campaign song, 215¬16; AL as JQA man, 429; men‚tioned, 62, 114, 180, 504
Adams, Mrs., 660
Aesop's Fables: read by AL, 31, 41, 112
A.F.C. See Davies, Harry W.
Akenside, Mark: ¿The Pleasures of the Imagi
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nation,î 470 ¿Alas! and Did My Savior Bleedî (Watts), 148 Alexander, O. O., 601 Alexander II (czar), 710n Alison, Capt., 692 Allen, Charles, 688, 689 Allen, Ethan: and George Washington, AL
stories about, 174, 438 Allen, George T., 344, 537 Allen, John: AL's friend, 259; entered mercan‚
tile business with McNamar, 545; arranged Rutledge family's occupation of McNamar's farm, 545; founded Sunday schools and temperance societies, 546
Allen, Robert, 594
Alley, Nelson: AL boarded with, 13, 74, 170, 429; owned tavern, 429, 593; mentioned, 402
Alsop, Thomas, 700 American Colonization Society, 752 American Party. See Know Nothing (Ameri‚
can) Party American Preceptor, The (Bingham), 105n American Speaker, 147, 229 American Spelling Book, An (Rhoads), 112n ¿Am I a Soldier of the Crossî (Watts), 148,
168 Anderson, Moses K., 465 Andrew, John Albion, 75n, 525, 688, 691 Andrews, Rufus, 467 Angle, Paul M., xx¬xxi Annals of the West (Perkins), 518n Anonymous: letter to WHH on AL's legitima‚
cy, 571
A.P. See Pinkerton, Allan Appleton (publisher), 642 Arenz, Francis: publisher of Beardstown
Chronicle, 430, 430n
Armstrong, Hannah: biographical sketch of, 738; interview with, 525¬27; later surname Wilcox, 144n; character, 243; foxed AL's
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