Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of Abraham Lincoln, as a junior partner. In 1886, William G. Beale was also admitted as a partner, and henceforth the partnership was known as Isham Lincoln & Beale. The firm retained this name until it dissolved in 1988. Isham's most notable cases include the arrangement of the Walter Loomis Newberry library endowment and the 1875 mayoral election controversy between Harvey Doolittle Colvin & Monroe Heath. He received an LL.D. from Williams College in 1893. Personal life In 1861, Isham was married to Frances "Fannie" Burch (1838–1894), the daughter of the Hon. Thomas Burch and his wife Eliza Burch of Little Falls, New York. Fannies first cousin, Mary Weld Burch, was the wife of Alexandre Ribot, the Prime Minister of France. They had two sons and two daughters, including: Ann Elizabeth Isham (1862–1912), who died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic, one of only four upper-class women to do so. Pierrepont Isham (1865–1906), who graduated from West Point in 1887 and served in the 7th Cavalry Regiment and later became a partner in the law firm. He married Lois Kellogg in 1893. Edward Swift Isham Jr. (1868–1927), who graduated from Yale and married Laura Miller, and was the father of three. Frances Isham (1872–1970), who married Henry Tweedy Shelton (1862–1950), a Yale Law School graduate. Isham was a charter member of the Chicago Club and drafted its incorporation papers in 1869. He died suddenly of heart disease on February 16, 1902, while at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York. After a funeral at the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, he was buried at Dellwood Cemetery in Manchester, Vermont. References Notes Sources External links 1836 births 1902 deaths Republican Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives People from Bennington, Vermont People from Manchester, Vermont Harvard Law School alumni Williams College alumni 19th-century American politicians