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RE: Extra Credit Questions - STS Lincolnite - 01-08-2015
My guess would be the man indicated by the red arrow.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 01-08-2015
I have no idea, could only sort some out (Scott's guess looks good to me), but it's a fascinating photo - I've never seen it!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-08-2015
Excellent, Scott, that's him! And also kudos to Eva for agreeing with Scott.
You both win one coupon for a free dish of hasty pudding. Enjoy!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-17-2015
These two men have a connection to Abraham Lincoln. What are their names, and what is the connection?
![[Image: twomenstanding.jpg]](http://rogerjnorton.com/twomenstanding.jpg)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 01-17-2015
I have zero clue. Being a trivia and guessing-game addict I try to approach. The photo looks post-1865 to me, maybe 1880s. Hmmm. Two brothers? Maybe they built something that has to do with Lincoln?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rogerm - 01-17-2015
Did these two men play some roll in the attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body from his grave?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-17-2015
Eva and Roger, you both made excellent guesses but not correct.
Hint #1: Roger's guess was closer to the right answer.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 01-17-2015
Since they appear to be laborers, I'm going to expand on Rogerm's guess that they had something to do with constructing the Lincoln tomb in the years after his burial?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 01-17-2015
Looks like Jib Jab to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYSQPR3He4
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 01-17-2015
(01-17-2015, 07:52 PM)Gene C Wrote: Looks like Jib Jab to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYSQPR3He4
OMG - they do look like the Jib Jab pair. And, the video is great! "Abe" can sure move those long legs.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 01-18-2015
Were they involved in one of the re-openings of the coffin?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 01-18-2015
Kudos, Eva! That is correct. In 1901, when Lincoln's coffin was opened for the final time (contrary to RTL's specific request), two men were called upon. Their names were Leon P. Hopkins and his nephew, Charles L. Willey. They were plumbers by trade. Dorothy Kunhardt writes that the men were sent for "to chisel an oblong piece out of the top of the lead-lined coffin just over Lincoln's head and shoulders." These same men were also involved with a previous opening in 1887. For 14 years Hopkins thought he was the last man to see Lincoln's face and never imagined he would be called upon again.
Eva, it's hard to think of an appropriate prize for this one, so I just send best wishes for a nice, hopefully warm January day in Germany.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnToddFan - 01-18-2015
Fascinating. One of these days I will correctly guess the answer to one of these questions. Until then I will continue to marvel at some of you folks. I feel like such a dunce, LOL!!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 01-18-2015
Thank you, Roger! Would love that prize. Sadly the delivery seems delayed indefinitely, Today it began snowing and the 8 days forecast looks gloomy.
Toia, you are by no means a dunce. The road to success is quite often just wild guessing and "trial and error" without any fear of ridicule...
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 01-18-2015
(01-18-2015, 12:27 PM)LincolnToddFan Wrote: Fascinating. One of these days I will correctly guess the answer to one of these questions. Until then I will continue to marvel at some of you folks. I feel like such a dunce, LOL!!
If you are a dunce, I want to be one too!