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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-06-2013 07:30 AM
Charles Sumner?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-06-2013 07:44 AM
Brilliant, Roger, it was him. I'm pretty sure you also know the original source, mine is just a secondary one: "Lincoln reconsidered" by D. Donald
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-06-2013 09:03 AM
Eva, I cheated as I had that answer in the files on my computer. There is a teacher here in the USA who asks that question every year in his class, and sometimes students have written me (through my Lincoln website) about it. It's in Sumner's memoirs. Sometimes I tell the students the answer, and sometimes I just give hints.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-06-2013 11:59 AM
Well, after posting the question I already doubted it would challenge anyone out there, but it was too late then. Thanks for the source!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-09-2013 01:57 PM
Abraham Lincoln and family arrived in Washington in late 1847 after Abraham had earlier been elected to the House of Representatives. The family took a room at Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse. What building today rests on the site of Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 05-09-2013 02:19 PM
The Library of Congress?
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-09-2013 02:29 PM
Very good, Rob. Indeed that is what is there now. My source says the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-09-2013 02:41 PM
For a brief period prior to moving into Mrs. Sprigg's, the Lincolns stayed at a hotel in Washington. What was the hotel's name?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - historybuff22 - 05-09-2013 02:48 PM
Willard?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-09-2013 03:12 PM
Very logical guess, Rick, but that's not it.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-09-2013 03:31 PM
The Indian Queen?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-09-2013 03:55 PM
Terrific, Eva. They stayed for a short time at Brown's Indian Queen Hotel before moving to Mrs. Sprigg's.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-13-2013 05:19 AM
Which abolitionist's last words were the following:
"All I can add in my solitude is, may heaven's rich blessing come down on every one, American, English, or Turk, who will help to heal this open sore of the world."
His wife's name was Mary, he had one son named Robert, who died in the civil war, one named William, one named Thomas, and he regretted that he rarely had time for his beloved (six) children.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 05-13-2013 07:32 AM
Wendell Phillips?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 05-13-2013 07:44 AM
Good guess, but it wasn't him, I'm afraid.
He was somehow linked to the Herald Tribune.