About Ruth Painter Randall
Lived 1892 – 1971 (aged 78). Ruth Painter Randall was an American historian and writer.
Career as a historian In the 1940s, Randall started assisting her husband with research for his biography about Abraham Lincoln, titled Lincoln the President: From Springfield to Gettysburg. In the end, she wrote two chapters for the book, which was published in 1945. Shortly thereafter, she started working on her own book about Mary Todd Lincoln titled Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage. James died in 1953.
Randall's papers and correspondence are held in the collection of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Selected works Mary Lincoln : Biography of a Marriage. Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1953). Lincoln's Sons. Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1955). I, Mary: A Biography of the Girl Who Married Abraham Lincoln. Boston: Little Brown (1959). Colonel Elmer Ellsworth: a biography of Lincoln's friend and first hero of the Civil War. Boston: Little Brown (1960). I, Varina: a Biography of the Girl Who Married Jefferson Davis and Became the First Lady of the South. Boston: Little Brown (1962) I, Jessie. Boston: Little Brown (1963). I, Elizabeth: A Biography of the Girl Who Married General George Armstrong Custer of "Custer's Last Stand". Boston: Little Brown (1966)
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American historian (1892-1971)
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Ruth Painter Randall was born on 1 November 1892 in Salem.
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Ruth Painter Randall died on 22 January 1971 in Urbana.
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