On Oct. 15, 1860 - 153 years ago today &mdash 11-year-old Grace Bedell wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln suggesting he grow a beard for the presidential election. Bedell said in her letter that ...

Abraham Lincoln’s legacy survives in Kansas ... owned by the descendants of the young girl who persuaded Lincoln to grow a beard. In adulthood, the girl moved to Kansas and married a banker.

In a legal career that spanned nearly a quarter century, Abraham Lincoln accepted ... six weeks before her complaint to the circuit court. Martin Beard was also accused of “cruelty and abuse ...