Lucy lambert hale biography
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Lucy Hill (Lambert) Hale
This is a transcription of the Lucy Hill (Lambert) Hale biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 41.
Lucy Hill (Lambert) Hale
Mrs. John P. Hale was Miss Lucy Hill Lambert, a native of Somersworth, N.H., the daughter of William and Abigail (Ricker) Lambert. She was married to Mr. Hale at Berwick, Me., and resided in Dover, as her home, at Washington when Mr. Hale was in the United States senate, and at Madrid when he was United States minister to Spain. Her only brother was the Rev. Thomas R. Lambert, who was first a lawyer in New Hampshire, next a chaplain in the United States navy, and later for many years rector of the Episcopal church at Charlestown, MA., and was also a distinguished member of the Masonic order. Mrs. Hale has proved herself a lady, kindly, courteous, and dignified. in all the relations of life, public and private.
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Lucy Lambert Hale
Socialite (1841–1915)
Lucy Lambert Hale (January 1, 1841 – October 15, 1915) was the daughter of U.S. SenatorJohn Parker Hale of New Hampshire, and was a noted Washington, D.C., society belle. She attracted many admirers including Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Robert Todd Lincoln; and stage actor and presidential assassinJohn Wilkes Booth, to whom she was secretly engaged. Lucy's photograph was found in Booth's pocket after Sergeant Boston Corbett mortally wounded Booth 12 days after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln.[1]
Hale later married William E. Chandler, a future United States Senator and United States Secretary of the Navy.[1]
Early years
[edit]Lucy Hale was born on January 1, 1841, in Dover, New Hampshire, the second eldest daughter of U.S. Senator John Parker Hale and Lucy Hill Lambert, daughter of William Thomas Lambert and Abigail Ricker.[2] She was described as "pretty, precocious, sweet and good".[1] At the age of 12, she was receiving poems from a Harvard University student by the name of William Chandler. He was the first of her many romantic conquests, which also included Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. whom she met on vacation in Maine and with whom she began a romantic correspondence in 1858 when she
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Asia Booth Clarke
The 19th-century Denizen writer, Asia Booth Clarke(1835-1888), was calved into a family catch the fancy of actors. Churn out famous brothers were Edwin Booth, Junius Booth, and John Wilkes Booth.
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