On Feb. 20, 1862, 150 years ago, young William Wallace Lincoln, third son of President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary, died. He was just 11 years old and the likely cause was typhoid fever.

Here my children have been born and one is buried." In 1850, Lincoln's favorite son was born. William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln was the most like his father, which might be why Lincoln was fond of him.

Willie Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln — February 20, 1862 William Wallace Lincoln, the third of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's four children, died of typhoid fever in 1862, becoming yet ...

In 1862, William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, died at the White House, apparently of typhoid fever. • In 1905, in Jacobson v.

In 1862, William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, died at the White House, apparently of typhoid fever. In 1905, the U.S. Supreme ...