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[Don Simmons #72] Mary and Abe married in 1842. Robert Smith Todd died in 1849. I don't think the subject of a "dowry" was ever an issue. Inheritance, however, might have been.

Yep, might have been.

SOURCE: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Allen C. Guelzo, p. 23

[F]rom 1850 until 1862, Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, were embroiled in litigation in Kentucky over the settlement of the estate of Mary's father, litigation that net­ted the Lincolns a share in the proceeds of selling the Todd family slaves.

[The Iguana]

If the Lincolns were embroiled in litigation over Mary's father's estate until 1862, it seems unlikely he realized any real wealth by way of inheritance from his father-in-law's ill-gotten (slave-based) gains before he won the presidency.

In any case, as I said, Mr. Todd had plenty of children to divvy up his inheritance among.