Ladies of the White House

Holloway, Laura C. Ladies of the White House. Philadelphia: Bradley & Company, 1881.
    Source Type
    Secondary
    Year
    1881
    Publication Type
    Book
    Citation:
    Laura C. Holloway, Ladies of the White House (Philadelphia: Bradley & Company, 1881), 526.
    Body Summary:
    To Mrs. Lincoln more than to any other President's wife was the White House an ambition. She had ever aspired to reach it, and when it became her home, it was the fruition of a hope long entertained, the gratification of the great desire of her life. In her early youth she repeatedly asserted that she should be a President's wife, and so profoundly impressed was she with this idea, that she calculated the probabilities of such a success with all her male friends. She refused an offer of marriage from Stephen A. Douglas, then a rising young lawyer, doubting his ability to gratify her ambition, and accepted a man who at that time seemed to others the least likely to be the President of the United States.
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