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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 06-30-2022
(06-29-2022, 05:56 PM)AussieMick Wrote: This person's name was mentioned in a Post by Gene. But with over 5000 posts by Gene I dont think that helps much.
It didn't help me much -
However, given that you have a 150 +/- year old photo of a man with a beard who sure looks a lot like Abraham Lincoln, it can only be one person.
(I hope I didn't give it away)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 06-30-2022
To add some context ... I found the basis for this question when considering current global financial conditions.
And that took me to the US Civil War ... and how it was then , especially in the South.
(06-30-2022, 07:39 AM)Gene C Wrote:(06-29-2022, 05:56 PM)AussieMick Wrote: This person's name was mentioned in a Post by Gene. But with over 5000 posts by Gene I dont think that helps much.
It didn't help me much -
However, given that you have a 150 +/- year old photo of a man with a beard who sure looks a lot like Abraham Lincoln, it can only be on person.
(I hope I didn't give it away)
You didnt give it away, Gene. Its not Abe.
That post of your's (years ago) referred to a specific chapter in a book which alerted you to this person and his cunning scheme.
bed time for me, so one more clue ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1hCLBTD5RM
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 06-30-2022
I still have no clue, but your clue is good (I need that machine).
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 06-30-2022
(06-30-2022, 03:15 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: I still have no clue
Same here.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 06-30-2022
He wanted to make a fortune. So he thought outside the square.
He sold $5 bills for one penny each ...
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-01-2022
Samuel Curtis Upham.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 07-01-2022
Yep. You got him, Roger.
I'll get some info on him ,,,
Here's from Gene's post
"The most interesting chapter to me, because it was all new, was Sam Upham's Counterfeiting Scheme. Sam was a Philadelphia businessman who printed copies of Confederate bank notes and sold them as curios. He sold copies of the $5 and $10 notes for 5 cents each or in bulk for 100 for $2, and the were very good copies. They were so popular that competitors sprang up and cut into Upham's profits. They made it into circulation in the South and had a negative effect on the southern economy which took a nosedive following the defeats at Vicksburg and Gettysburg."
True Crime In The Civil War Thread
https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-3824-post-72852.html#pid72852
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/03/24/11-things-might-not-know-samuel-upham/
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/silent-crimes/samuel-curtis-upham/
http://blog.rarenewspapers.com/?p=5495
https://www.pmgnotes.com/news/article/4181/
And this is what started me on the trek to Mr Upham ....
https://eh.net/encyclopedia/money-and-finance-in-the-confederate-states-of-america/
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-07-2022
Thanks for all the info and bringing this up again, Mike - if I read it before, I have forgotten. Very interesting!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-09-2022
This historian and author won a Pulitzer Prize. The photo shows him speaking in 1983. Who is he?
And, for extra credit, who is the author sitting in the far left side of the photo?
![[Image: scholarlincoln.jpg]](http://rogerjnorton.com/scholarlincoln.jpg)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 07-09-2022
My first guess was Stephen Oates, but he never won the Pulitzer, so my next guess is Mark Neely. I have no idea who the second gentleman is.
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-09-2022
Bingo, Rob! Yes, it is Mark Neely.
I will hold off for now on the other author in the photo. I will say he has been mentioned many, many times on this forum.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 07-10-2022
Gerald J. Prokopowicz ?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-10-2022
Nope, it's not Prokopowicz.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - mbgross - 07-11-2022
Is it William "Jack" Davis?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-12-2022
Nope, it's not Davis.