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Coffee urn donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

A coffee urn given as a wedding present by Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln has been donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Beginning Monday, the silver-plate coffee urn will be on display at the museum.

The donation was made by a descendant of the groom, a young lawyer named Christopher Columbus Brown.

Read entire article at Chicago Tribune