Thomas Lincoln

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Eva (photo) and Laurie (analysis), you both are GREAT ! Puzzle solved !

In Charles Wendell Townsend’s “Audubon’s Labrador” (published April 1918), p. 12 I found the portrait of the “mysterious Thomas Lincoln” and he is definitely NOT President Lincoln’s father, but a great ornithologist! He is of Dennysville, Maine, the son of an old friend of Audubon (another ornithologist) and one whose name ornithologists all remember, as it was immortalized by Audubon in the name of a new species of sparrow discovered in Labrador. This Thomas Lincoln died at the age of seventy-one on his birthday, March 27, in 1883.

https://archive.org/stream/inaudubonslab...n_djvu.txt

However: Ebay is selling this portrait under the heading: “Thomas Lincoln, American farmer, father, families, relatives, President Abraham Lincoln,1860”

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Thomas-Lincoln...46287c7956