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RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 12-26-2013 04:40 PM
Who is this gentleman?
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RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 12-26-2013 05:14 PM
Simon P. Hanscom?
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 12-26-2013 05:18 PM
Not him, Roger, but a very good guess! I could as well have posted the question on the "Assassination trivia" thread.
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 12-27-2013 04:05 AM
Hint#1: Think April 14, 1865.
RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 12-27-2013 04:58 AM
Joseph B. Stewart (the man who chased after Booth at Ford's)?
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 12-27-2013 05:10 AM
Another good guess, but not him.
Hint#2: Don't think Ford's.
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 12-27-2013 10:54 AM
Hint#2: He was on the margins of Good Friday morning.
RE: Who is this person? - J. Beckert - 12-27-2013 11:36 AM
Wild guess - William Browning?
RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 12-27-2013 11:58 AM
I cheated, Eva. When you mentioned Good Friday morning I started looking at W. Emerson Reck's book on Lincoln's last day. And I found the man's picture on p. 11. It's Eli K. Price.
RE: Who is this person? - Gene C - 12-27-2013 12:29 PM
Who's Eli Price?
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 12-27-2013 01:23 PM
Very smart, Roger, and since this question took trivia to the top and I can't recall reading his "story" anywhere else I don't consider it cheating!
Gene, here's an answer to your question:
http://books.google.de/books?id=6vJ1tHgJe5QC&pg=PA10&lpg=PP1&focus=viewport&vq=page+11&hl=de&output=html_text
http://books.google.de/books?id=6vJ1tHgJe5QC&pg=PA161&vq=eli+prize&hl=de&output=html_text&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1
RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 01-15-2014 05:48 AM
This person was described as so "tight and compact" that "he never could find the points of separation between his ribs..."
A. Who was the person so described?
B. Who described the person this way?
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 01-15-2014 09:36 AM
B. Well, the description sounds Dennis-Hanks-like, but
A. I don't know/recall whom (?) he would describe (if B. was right).
(A. The description would match Stephen Douglas, but the style of language somehow isn't in line with anyone I could think of to describe Douglas.)
RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 01-15-2014 10:08 AM
Splendid, Eva! The description does come from Dennis Hanks. Very good. Now, whom was he describing? (It was not Douglas.)
RE: Who is this person? - Anita - 01-15-2014 10:31 AM
Could it be Lincoln?