Julia Taft Bayne (March 4, 1845 – December 14, 1933) was an American author who wrote a memoir of the Lincoln White House entitled Tad Lincoln's Father (1931), based on her time visiting the household as a teenager with her younger brothers.
After Willie Lincoln died of typhoid fever on February 20, 1862, the Taft children stopped visiting the White House.
Julia Bayne's half brother Charles Sabin Taft was a physician; he was one of the first doctors on the scene when President Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre.
Bayne's memoir provides a unique glimpse into the social and family life of the Lincoln White House.
[1] In 2001, Tad Lincoln's Father was reprinted by Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press (ISBN 0803261918).