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Edward L. Baker was editor and co-owner of Illinois State Journal in Springfield, Illinois. He had also married Mrs. Lincoln’s niece, Julia Edwards. He also was a lawyer and a friend of Mr. Lincoln who claimed that he took a message from Mr. Lincoln in Springfield to David Davis in Chicago the day before Mr. Lincoln’s Republican nomination for President in 1860. Baker then returned to Springfield, where Mr. Lincoln awaited the news of the voting. Another lawyer, Henry Rankin, wrote how the news was received:

It was about nine o’clock on the morning of May 18, 1860, when Lincoln came into his law office. H.J. Littlefield, a student, Lewis Rosette, a lawyer, the writer, and one or two others were present. His first words were: ‘Well, boys, what do you know?’ Mr. Littlefield told what he had last heard. Lincoln then said that Dr. [William] Wallace had come down from Chicago that morning, and had said that he thought Seward showed great strength.
In a few minutes, Edward L. Baker, one of the editors o

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The second child of Mary and Abraham, Eddie was born on March 10, 1846, in the Lincoln home on Eighth and Jackson Streets. He was named after Edward Baker, a friend and political ally of Lincoln's. Eddie only lived to be three years and ten months old. After a long illness he died in the family home on February 1, 1850.

Because he died so young, little is known of his still-developing personality, only a few impressions of him have survived. Mrs. Lincoln wrote of an occasion when Robert brought home a kitten. When Eddie "spied it his tenderness broke forth, he made them bring it water, fed it with bread himself, with his own dear hands, he was a delighted little creature over it...."

On the day that Lincoln said farewell to the people of Springfield as he left for the White House, he thought of Eddie. Summing up what Springfield had meant to him, he said: "To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born and one is buried."

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Edward Baker Lincoln

Second son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln (1846–1850)

Edward Baker Lincoln
Eddie Lincoln, age 3
Born	(1846-03-10)March 10, 1846 Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
Died	February 1, 1850(1850-02-01) (aged 3) Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
Resting place	Hutchinson's Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois (originally) Lincoln Tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery
Other names	Eddie, Ted
Parent(s)	Abraham Lincoln Mary Todd
Relatives	See Lincoln family tree, Robert Todd Lincoln (brother)

Edward Baker Lincoln (March 10, 1846 – February 1, 1850) was the second son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. He was named after Lincoln's close friend, Edward Dickinson Baker. Both Abraham and Mary spelled his name "Eddy";^[1] however, the National Park Service uses "Eddie" as a nickname^[2] and the nickname also appears spelled this way on his crypt at the Lincoln tomb.

Life

Eddie Lincoln was born on March 10, 1846, at the Lincoln Home in Springfield, Illinois. Little is known about his life, but a surviv