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Ann Rutledge



Rutledge, Ann (c.1813–35), daughter of an innkeeper at New Salem, Ill., where Abraham Lincoln lived 1831–37. Her early death deeply grieved Lincoln, but stories of a romance or even engagement are probably incorrect.

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