A Warrant For Mrs. Lincoln

It was an ordinary day when Mary Lincoln, widow of Abraham Lincoln, answered a knock A Warrant for Mrs. Lincoln is a remarkable blend of history and fiction.
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Trivia About A Warrant for Mrs No trivia or quizzes yet. She had taken no part in the hiring of her own attorney. It is worth noting the makeup of the jurors. Judge Wallace had chosen them, and it was quite a distinguished panel. The foreman was Lyman Judson Gage, a banker and future secretary of the treasury.

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The other jurors came from equally impressive pedigrees, and included a wealthy factory owner, a real estate developer, a shoe manufacturer, and the wholesale grocery magnate Henry Durand, for which the Durand Art Institute at Lake Forest College is named. It was no accident that these were all gentlemen of the city's elite. Abraham Lincoln's widow was brought to court as a defendant in a trial for which she had received no prior notification.


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She had been given no opportunity to organize a defense. Nor was she present when the jurors had been impaneled. And her lawyer was in the pocket of opposing counsel.


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The first witness called to the stand was Mary's gynecologist, Dr. Willis Danforth, who testified that she suffered from "nervous derangement" of the head.

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A maid from the Grand Pacific followed who said that Mrs. Lincoln had complained about hearing voices "speaking to her through the wall.

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The star witness was her son, Robert, a future secretary of war, appointed by President Garfield. On the stand, Robert recited the litany of his family's tragic history: Over the next three hours the jury heard from seventeen witnesses. When it came time to present the defense argument, Mary's lawyer stood before Judge Wallace and said he had no witnesses to call. He would not even call Mary to the stand to testify on her own behalf. The jury deliberated about ten minutes before reaching a verdict.

Mary listened with a vacant stare.

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Then she turned to Isaac Arnold and asked what it all meant. He told her that she would have to be institutionalized. The next day, Mary was taken to the train depot for the 5: Robert Lincoln had arranged deluxe accommodations. The car she was riding in was reserved for the director of the railroad and available only to well-heeled passengers.


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Leonard Swett had come to see Mary off, and watching the train pull out of the station was, he later said, "painful beyond parallel. Was Mary Lincoln insane? Was there any justification for sentencing the widow of the martyred President Lincoln to an indefinite term in an insane asylum?

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Historians have argued these issues for many decades. An essential fact that should put the debate in perspective is that Mary was released after less than four months. Robert Lincoln later came to regret his role in putting his mother away. It destroyed their relationship and they didn't speak for five years. They never truly reconciled.