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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 06-21-2013 12:38 PM

Have fun shopping, Eva! And if he overcharges you, even if by mistake, make sure he walks all the miles to your residence with the change he owes you.

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Who said that Abraham Lincoln told him the following:

"You know better than any man living that from my boyhood up my ambition was to be President."

RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 06-21-2013 01:45 PM

Mr. Lamon?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 06-21-2013 02:01 PM

Kudos, Bill. Very good. Indeed it was Ward Hill Lamon as quoted in the New York Tribune, July 26, 1885. Lamon said Lincoln told him this during the war.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 06-21-2013 02:02 PM

Thank you sir. I had come across the quote a couple weeks ago and remembered it.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 06-21-2013 02:20 PM

(06-21-2013 12:38 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Have fun shopping, Eva! And if he overcharges you, even if by mistake, make sure he walks all the miles to your residence with the change he owes you.

Well, I hope he's good at rowing then...

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 06-22-2013 05:49 AM

Who said about A. Lincoln:
"Why, if the old Greek had had this man, what trilogies of plays - what epics - would have been made out of him!...But Lincoln, his times, his death - great as any, belong to our own."

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rogerm - 06-22-2013 07:37 AM

Was it Walt Whitman?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 06-22-2013 08:06 AM

Very good, Roger, you hit the mark! He said this in 1879.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 06-22-2013 09:34 AM

I ordered something off Amazon called "Whitman Sampler" thinking it would be a collection of Walt Whitman's.
Was I ever surprised. Evidently in his day he was quite a singer, and went by the nickname of "Slim"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUROKcDOvvk

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Joe Di Cola - 06-22-2013 12:24 PM

(06-22-2013 09:34 AM)Gene C Wrote:  I ordered something off Amazon called "Whitman Sampler" thinking it would be a collection of Walt Whitman's.
Was I ever surprised. Evidently in his day he was quite a singer, and went by the nickname of "Slim"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUROKcDOvvk

And, Gene,

He just died a few days ago at the age of 90.

Joe

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 06-22-2013 05:51 PM

(06-22-2013 09:34 AM)Gene C Wrote:  I ordered something off Amazon called "Whitman Sampler" thinking it would be a collection of Walt Whitman's.
Was I ever surprised. Evidently in his day he was quite a singer, and went by the nickname of "Slim"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUROKcDOvvk

Gene, do you know this book? It's very good!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345458001?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 06-22-2013 06:21 PM

Eva,

I haven't read that one. I did read one by the same author called the Lincoln's - Portrait of a Marriage". There were a few things in that book I didn't agree with, but he does have a good writing style thats easy to read.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 06-24-2013 12:29 PM

This lady is the wife of a man mentioned frequently on the forum. Her first name was Lida. To whom was she married?

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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 06-24-2013 12:45 PM

Osborn Oldroyd.

Best
Rob

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 06-24-2013 01:13 PM

Good job, Rob! You are correct - it is Lida Oldroyd.