This Week in History July 15, 1871 Thomas Lincoln, youngest son of Abraham and Mary, dies in Chicago, Illinois, at age 18. July 16, 1882 Mary Lincoln, widow of the president, dies in Springfield, Illinois, at age 63. On the same date in 1849, her father died in Lexington, Kentucky, at age 58. July 18, 1860 Lincoln writes to his running mate Hannibal Hamlin, introducing himself. Today in Lincoln's Life Lincoln's Words "I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union." --Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859

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