Lincoln Discussion Symposium

Who is this?

I'm sure I'm wrong, but is it a young Jack Lincoln?

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Rob

I'm (almost) sure that I've seen it most days for the last 6 months on the front of some website.

I'm going to vote the same as Rob. Pretty sure that it's Robert's son.

Wow, I blurred the picture slightly, skewed it a little, and cropped it out of a larger photo, but Rob and Laurie got it right. Excellent! Yes, is it Abraham 'Jack' Lincoln II, son of Robert Lincoln. He is posing with a high wheeled bike known as a penny-farthing in the 1880s.

I would guess the bicycle is a photographers prop?
Somehow I can't quite picture Robert Lincoln running along side helping Jack learn how to ride that thing.

That could be, Gene, but the Republic magazine was quoted as saying (with regard to Robert's children), "The second is a boy named Abraham, about eight years old, who rides a bicycle like a professional in company with the sons of President Garfield and Attorney General [I. Wayne] MacVeagh." Both the boulder at the left and the backdrop are studio props.

Source: The Lincoln Family Album (Mark E. Neely, Jr. and Harold Holzer), p. 144.

The male in this photo was one of the most important people in Lincoln's life. This photo was taken when the gentleman was older. Who is he?

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Rob

Billy Greene?

Good guess, Roger, but it isn't Greene.

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Rob

"Uncle Jimmy" Short?

I can see a bit of a resemblance, Roger, but it isn't him either.

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Rob

I'd like to think it was Benjamin Austin Gollaher, but I dont see much resemblance to the other photos Ive seen of him ... I guess it could be him.
"I would rather see him than any man living." ~ President Abraham Lincoln about Austin Gollaher, on Gollaher's grave stone.

Sorry Mike, but it's not Gollaher.

Clue: This man was one of Herndon's informants.

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Rob

Rob, was the person from New Salem?