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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 04-12-2019
John Nicolay ?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 04-12-2019
I was going to guess Nicolay's compatriot, Mr. Hay.
Here's some interesting information to back up whoever said it (if it refers to the billeting in the Capitol): https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/the-u-s-capitol-at-war/
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 04-12-2019
This is one of the very few handwritings of the "story" I can read, so I'm, too, guessing a secretary. I think Hay was the younger one, and this looks rather like written by a young man.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-13-2019
All are good guesses, but none correct.
Hint #1: The correct answer is a person definitely known to this forum. It's not a new name.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Susan Higginbotham - 04-13-2019
Julia Taft Bayne?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-13-2019
Nope, Susan, it was not Julia Taft Bayne.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 04-13-2019
Mary's "Cousin Lizzie" Grimsley.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 04-13-2019
Male or female?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 04-13-2019
Fanny Seward?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-13-2019
Anita and Eva, it is neither of those folks.
Laurie, the correct answer is male.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 04-13-2019
Was he young at the time he wrote/observed this? (My definition of young = 30 or younger.)
Not that young but - Walt Whitman? (Although he possibly /likely wasn't in DC then.)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 04-13-2019
The "Prince of Rails"?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 04-13-2019
Nope, Steve, it was not Robert Lincoln.
Eva, yes, the right answer was under 30 when he wrote those lines. It's not Walt Whitman.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - mbgross - 04-13-2019
elmer ellsworth?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 04-13-2019
Was my next Idea, too?!