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RE: Who is this person? - STS Lincolnite - 04-17-2024 04:10 PM
(04-17-2024 03:47 PM)STS Lincolnite Wrote: Was it Lincoln's bootmaker? He was a German immigrant. Maybe last name of Kahle or something like that?
Ok. Never mind. I missed Roger's earlier post about it NOT being a bootmaker. Sorry about that.
RE: Who is this person? - Dennis Urban - 04-17-2024 04:22 PM
Maybe Francis Carpenter, who painted Lincoln, although he was in a sitting position.
RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 04-17-2024 06:21 PM
Excellent, Dennis!! Yes, indeed it was Carpenter.
"Mr. Lincoln's height was six feet three and three-quarter inches in his stocking-feet. He stood up, one day, at the right of my large canvas, while I marked his exact height upon it."
SOURCE: p. 217 of "The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House" by Francis B. Carpenter (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1995).