Lincoln Discussion Symposium

Excellent, Anita. Yes, this is Mary Lincoln's bed. It was in her room when she was at Bellevue Place in 1875. Nowadays it's at the Depot Museum in Batavia, Illinois.

https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lin...llevue.htm

O.K., Roger. We're doing bed trivia now? - count me in.

Lincoln's death bed. A notable actor slept in it a few weeks before the assassination and Booth is not who I'm thinking of. Who was it?

John Wilkes Booth

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Sorry. I sent this before seeing that you are not thinking of Booth.

Booth did take a nap in the bed, but I said Booth was not who I was thinking of, Roger. It's another actor of some note.

Joe, was it John Mathews?

That's a negative, PMOTI. Think a Ford's stock actor.

Googling is encouraged for this one. (And his first name was Charles)

Charles Warwick? (Thanks, Google.... if I am correct)

That's it, Mick. He was at times part of the stock company at Ford's Theater. In March, 1865 he rented a room across the street at the Petersen house and came home to find Booth, who had come to visit him, taking a nap in the very bed that Lincoln died in.
I have a Ford's playbill from January, 1865 in which Booth's good friend friend John McCullough, Alice Gray, whose picture was found on his body, and Warwick all performed together in a production of The Robbers.

Like Roger, I recall (now) reading that Booth had slept in the bed ... so must have read some time about him visiting the lodging House but hadnt noted the occupancy of Warwick.
My google was something like 'bed booth petersen house slept'
thence to
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/...AHKw?hl=en

and a quick search for 'charles'

"I seem to recollect having heard as a boy that I was born in the
_______________________."

This is a two part question. Who said this, and what goes in the blank?

Lincoln, early morning?

That's a logical guess, Michael, but it was not Abraham Lincoln.

If it's not Abraham, how about Robert? If it is him, the Globe Tavern would be his birthplace.

Best
Rob

Well done, Rob! In chapter one of Jason Emerson's bio on Robert it says:

"Interestingly, Robert himself was not certain where he was born. I seem to recollect having heard as a boy that I was born in the Globe Tavern,” Robert wrote to a friend in 1886, “but I have also in later years seen such a newspaper statement and therefore was inclined to think otherwise. It is probably true for what it is worth."