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	Presidential Physician: William Wallace

Presidents

Abraham Lincoln

- Before presidency: primary physician

Notes

• Wallace was the husband of Lincoln's wife's sister, i.e. Lincoln's brother-in-law. He was the Lincoln family doctor while they lived in Springifled, IL. The Lincolns named their third son after him. Presumably, Wallace cared for the Lincolns' second son, Eddie, who died at age 3 years 10 months after a 52-day illness.
 

• Wallace operated on son Robert for crossed eyes and on son Tad for a cleft palate [Kunhardt p257]

References

• Kunhardt DM, Kunhardt PB Jr. Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights That Followed. New York: Castle Books, 1965.
 

• Neely ME. The Lincoln Family Album. New York: Doubleday, 1990; 56. Includes photograph of Wallace.