May 21, 2025. Vol. 32. No. 52. RockRiverTimes.com.
A verdict form, left, from a Cook County jury dated May 19, 1875, officially declared Mary Todd Lincoln “insane” and ordered her commitment to a sanitarium. At right, is a portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln, circa 1869. (Images courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum)
After 150 years, Mary Lincoln’s ‘madness’ still haunts American psyche Page 2