Family
Her sister Elizabeth Todd married Ninian Edwards, the son of the Illinois Governor Ninian Edwards. Their daughter Julia Edwards married Edward L. Baker, editor of the Illinois State Journal and son of Congressman David Jewett Baker. Her half-sister Emilie Todd married Benjamin Hardin Helm, son of the Kentucky Governor John L. Helm and a CS General.
One of Mary Todd's cousins was Kentucky Congressman/US General John Blair Smith Todd. Another cousin, William L. Todd, created the original Bear Flag for the California Republic in 1846.
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“Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.”
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“... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.”
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