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06-21-2025, 09:34 AM
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What is the name of the man viewing the Gutzon Borglum statue of Abraham Lincoln in Newark, New Jersey?

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06-21-2025, 12:19 PM
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Wild guess, but is it Osborne Oldroyd?

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06-21-2025, 04:09 PM
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He's not a US Citizen?
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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06-22-2025, 04:29 AM
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Osborne Oldroyd it is! Kudos, Rob!

Oldroyd loved to take long walks. In 1913, at age 71, he walked from the Petersen House to New York City. On the way he stopped to view the Lincoln statue in Newark.
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06-22-2025, 05:50 AM
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I think I should play the lottery. That was a complete and utter guess.

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06-22-2025, 08:19 AM
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Rob, I would be most proud of you if you walked from the Petersen House to New York City like Olydroyd!!! I wonder how many folks on the forum could do that. I sure know I could not.
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06-22-2025, 01:48 PM
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I can barely walk a block without my back bothering me. Maybe it was shorter in Oldroyd's time.

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11-23-2025, 11:58 AM
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Let's see if anyone can answer this correctly without any research (googling, using books, etc.).

A person arrived in Springfield on January 1, 1843. Lincoln Day-by-Day says the person "arrived Saturday and is today's sensation in Springfield."

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11-23-2025, 05:22 PM
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(11-23-2025 11:58 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Let's see if anyone can answer this correctly without any research (googling, using books, etc.).

A person arrived in Springfield on January 1, 1843. Lincoln Day-by-Day says the person "arrived Saturday and is today's sensation in Springfield."

Who was the person?

Daniel Webster

I remember a little boy was told something like he was the "country's biggest man." The little boy went down to see for himself and returned to say one of Springfield's heaviest citizens (I forgot name) was "much bigger."
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11-23-2025, 11:01 PM
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Martin Van Buren?
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Yesterday, 05:52 AM
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Nope, it's not Webster or Van Buren.
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(Yesterday 05:52 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Nope, it's not Webster or Van Buren.


I just reread the book a few months ago. Was it an animal?
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Yesterday, 11:02 AM
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Nope, it was a human.
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Yesterday, 02:31 PM
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Wild guess, but could it be Horace Greeley?

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Nope, it's not Greeley.
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