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William Osborn Stoddard at age twenty-six as he looked in 1862 as a member of President Lincoln’s White House staff. Madison Historical Society. Abraham Lincoln, photographed by Alexander Hesler in Springfield, Illinois, June 3, 1860. This is Stoddard’s own, personal copy of the famous Hesler pose, which was widely circulated during the 1860 presidential campaign. Stoddard family photograph. Mary Todd Lincoln, photographed by Mathew Brady in Washington in 1862. Stoddard retained this carte-de-visite photo of the president’s wife long after he—and Mrs. Lincoln—left the White House. Stoddard family photograph. Stoddard’s beloved mother, Sarah Osborn Stoddard. Stoddard family photograph. Stoddard’s upstate New York boyhood friend, M. H. “Hop” Strong. Stoddard family photograph. Stoddard’s siblings, who often followed him as his career took him far from New York. Brother John (upper left) and sister Kate joined him in Illinois. Brother Henry (upper right), also known as Harry, shown in his National Rifles uniform, reunited with him in Washington in 1861, as did sister Kate (left), who was photographed there by the capital’s leading photographer, Mathew Brady. Stoddard family photographs. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives during the Civil War. Stoddard owned and retained this carte-de-visite even after Colfax, later vice president, was implicated in the Crédit Mobilier scandal and disgraced. Stoddard family photograph. Susan Eagleson Cooper, age nineteen, future wife of William O. Stoddard. Stoddard family photograph. Stoddard’s formidable and supportive mother-in-law, Susan Eagleson Cooper, as she looked as an eighty-six-year-old in 1901, photographed in Mount Vernon, New York. Stoddard family photograph. Three of the children of William and Susan Stoddard: Daughters Margaret Stoddard Buttenheim (opposite) and Mabel Stoddard Ford (above). Madison Historical Society. Son Ralph Stoddard (right). Stoddard family photograph. Stoddard as he appeared in 1908, a year before the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Madison Historical Society. A distinguished, vigorous-looking William Osborn Stoddard, age seventy-six, as he appeared in 1911, fourteen years before his death. Madison Historical Society. William O. “Bill” Stoddard Jr., who excerpted and published the first version of his father’s autobiography, as he looked in 1940. Madison Historical Society. ...

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