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Died. Mary Herndon Ralston, 99, last survivor of nine children born to William Henry Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's longtime (21 years) law partner and biographer (Life of Lincoln); in Springfield, Ill. The Lincoln Herndon knew was an odd, thoughtful man ("the loveliest since Christ"), whose wife's temper was a town scandal and who brought his children to the law office where they "bent the points of all the pens, overturned inkstands, threw the pencils into the spittoon."