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RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 10-07-2013 01:26 PM

Emily Mitchell? (Very, very, very wild guess)


RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-07-2013 01:47 PM

Roger,

Good guess, but it's not her.

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Rob


RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 10-07-2013 02:27 PM

Caroline Hanks Hitchcock?


RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-07-2013 03:16 PM

Right occupation Roger, but wrong person.

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Rob

Clue #2.

Of her work, David C. Mearns said "The best things to be said about it are two: 1) she did not propagate the Ann Rutledge idyll, which may indicate that she had never heard of that woodland myth, and 2) that the style is, in a most moving sense, militantly dedicated."

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Rob


RE: Who is this person? - Hess1865 - 10-07-2013 05:36 PM

Wilma(?) Minor??


RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-07-2013 05:41 PM

Sorry Mr. Hess, but it's not her.

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Rob


RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-07-2013 08:13 PM

Clue #3.

She was the first woman to do what she did in regards to Lincoln.

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Rob


RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 10-08-2013 05:44 AM

Rev. Phebe Ann Coffin Hannaford.


RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-08-2013 07:44 AM

That is correct, Roger. Phebe Hanaford was a Universalist minister who was the first woman to write a full-scale biography of Lincoln in 1865, beating Tarbell by 35 years. She was quite a character. Good job!

You win one free sermon from the good Rev. Hanaford on the subject of your choice.

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Rob


RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 10-08-2013 08:01 AM

(10-08-2013 07:44 AM)Rob Wick Wrote:  You win one free sermon from the good Rev. Hanaford on the subject of your choice.

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Rob

Thanks, Rob. If she could do a sermon on the Cubs winning the World Series in my lifetime that would be my wish. Time is running out!


RE: Who is this person? - Rob Wick - 10-08-2013 11:49 AM

She's only a minister, Roger, not a miracle worker. Smile

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Rob


RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 10-27-2013 09:06 AM

Who is this gentleman?
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RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 10-27-2013 10:09 AM

Hint #1: He is somehow linked to the assassination.


RE: Who is this person? - Dave Taylor - 10-27-2013 10:56 AM

William J. Ferguson?


RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 10-27-2013 01:16 PM

Brilliant, Dave! It's him. Had he lived 23 years longer, he surely would have been Samuel Beckett's first choice for the part of Lucky in "Waiting for Godot":
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(Estragon/Lucky/Vladimir)

Dave, to check this you win tickets for the play at a theater of your choice (don't wait)!