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RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 02-15-2018 01:25 PM

Hint #2: The connection is medical.

RE: Who is this person? - AussieMick - 02-15-2018 02:49 PM

Antoine Marfan?

RE: Who is this person? - L Verge - 02-15-2018 02:52 PM

(02-15-2018 02:49 PM)AussieMick Wrote: Antoine Marfan?

That's my guess also.

RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 02-15-2018 03:19 PM

Excellent, Michael and Laurie! It is Dr. Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan. The first doctor to suggest Lincoln may have had Marfan syndrome was Dr. Abraham M. Gordon in 1962. In 1964 Dr. Harold Schwartz also suggested it. The vast majority of Lincoln writers (doctors as well as historians) do not believe Lincoln had Marfan syndrome.

Dr. Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan

RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 05-02-2018 04:45 AM

What is this person's name?

RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 05-02-2018 07:05 AM

William H. Crook

RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 05-02-2018 08:31 AM

Excellent, Eva! Crook was a Washington policeman who was assigned as a White House guard starting in January 1865 and remained as a White House employee long after the assassination.

According to Crook, as Lincoln left for Ford's Theatre, he turned to Crook and said "Goodbye, Crook." Before, Lincoln had always said, "Good night, Crook." Crook later remembered, "It was the first time that he neglected to say ‘Good Night’ to me and it was the only time that he ever said ‘Good-bye’. I thought of it at that moment and, a few hours later, when the news flashed over Washington that he had been shot, his last words were so burned into my being that they can never be forgotten."

According to the late historian William Hanchett, Crook's reminisces are in the myth category.

RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 05-16-2018 01:29 PM

This man has been mentioned on the forum. He was an author (among other things). Who is he?

RE: Who is this person? - Susan Higginbotham - 05-16-2018 04:54 PM

Henry Kyd Douglas?

RE: Who is this person? - L Verge - 05-16-2018 06:18 PM

(05-16-2018 04:54 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote: Henry Kyd Douglas?

I second Susan. Really good looking gent...

RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 05-17-2018 03:43 AM

Good try, Susan and Laurie. I agree there is a definite resemblance, but it is not Henry Kyd Douglas.

RE: Who is this person? - Gene C - 05-17-2018 06:02 AM

Guessing from what appears to be a cross at the base of the neck and the shirt collar, I will guess he is a priest or minister.

RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 05-17-2018 06:16 AM

I understand your thinking, Gene, but this man was neither a priest nor a minister.

RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 05-17-2018 12:32 PM

Hint #1: One of the people who has been discussed on this forum called the man in question a "rascal."

RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 05-18-2018 04:58 AM

Hint #2: At various times in his life this man was physically present at Ford's Theatre, the Petersen House, and the Lincoln Home in Springfield.