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There is little known about young Abraham Lincoln and particularly his early love life. Wilma Frances Minor nearly pulled off a journalistic coup with her ownership of purported letters between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge. It was a great story because Lincoln himself has indicated his affections for Rutledge. Unfortunately she was engaged and before she could formally call off the wedding and become Lincoln’s bride, she died of typhoid fever in 1835. Lincoln wrote a morbid poem about her death called The Suicide’s Soliloquy. In 1885, a Pennsylvania town named themselves after Rutledge.

Lincoln would eventually wed Mary Anne Todd of Kentucky in 1842. He would become one of our greatest Presidents until killed by an assassin’s bullet. Wilma Minor’s letters turned out to be fake, probably penned by her. Her story was printed in The Atlantic Magazine in 1928 and promptly discredited. She drifted into writing in local San Diego papers and creating unpopular biographies about famous female personalities. She later moved with her husband to Atascadero in the 1950s living in obscurity until their deaths.