In the fall of 1833, Mary Owens spent a month in New Salem with her sister, Mrs. Bennett Abell, who was eager to have Lincoln as a brother-in-law. Lincoln found Mary Owens intelligent and “agreeable.” She in turn recalled that they “were congenial spirits” who saw “eye to eye” on political matters. Three years later, Lincoln accepted Betsy Abell’s startling proposition that she bring her sister Mary back from Kentucky for him to wed. (Mrs. Abell, according to a friend, “was a great talker, and sometimes said more than she ought.”) Lincoln agreed, and Mary returned to New Salem for a year and a half, to be courted by Lincoln.
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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