Adele Cutts Douglas
Adele Cutts Douglas grew up in Washington, where her good looks, winning
personality, and impressive family connections made her a favorite of local
society.
Her father was the nephew of Dolley Madison, whose Lafayette Square
mansion became Adele Cutts's second home. Her mother's sister, Rose Greenhow,
also an important hostess, was later convicted of spying for the Confederacy.
Cutts met the widower Senator Stephen A. Douglas
in 1856, when he had narrowly lost the Democratic presidential nomination to
James Buchanan.
They wed after a brief courtship, and Stephen Douglas's
substantial fortune supported Adele Douglas's brilliant salon, where together
they commanded substantial political power. During the famous Lincoln-Douglas
debates in 1858, Adele Douglas traveled with her husband through Illinois, and
like her husband, she became Lincoln's warm friend. She accompanied Douglas
through his travels south during the 1860 presidential campaign and was by his
side when he died in Chicago the following spring.
Adele Cutts Douglas later
married a career army officer, and raised their six children in the western
territories.
Source: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/carte/mrsdoug.htm
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