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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-30-2014 09:43 AM
Excellent guess, Eva, but it's not Rathbone.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-30-2014 01:28 PM
Hint #1: The answer is a person mentioned quite often on this forum.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 08-30-2014 02:12 PM
Sure wrong (as Betty would have known): Lewis Powell?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-30-2014 03:04 PM
Another good try, Eva, but it's not Lewis Powell.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - PaigeBooth - 08-30-2014 04:09 PM
(08-30-2014 07:29 AM)RJNorton Wrote: What person was described as such?
"He knew much about the cost of things, the details of trade, the principles of mechanics, and the habits of animals, all of which showed the activity of his mind and the odd turn of his thoughts."
When I read this quote, my first thought was Lincoln. But I didn't think an "odd turn of his thoughts" suited the president. This is just a thought, could it be one of Lincoln's sons? I've heard Tad had odd behavior, I'll take a stab and guess him. Is it Tad Lincoln?????
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 08-30-2014 04:40 PM
Brilliant, Paige! This was said about Tad by journalist Noah Brooks. Brooks was amazed at Tad despite Tad's lack of academic preparation.
Paige, you win very best wishes for a nice holiday weekend!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - PaigeBooth - 08-30-2014 08:32 PM
Thanks! Hope you have a great weekend too.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 09-03-2014 05:32 AM
What is the name of this hotel?
![[Image: doesthishotelhaveaname.jpg]](http://rogerjnorton.com/doesthishotelhaveaname.jpg)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-03-2014 05:41 AM
Wormely's Hotel (if it had another name I can't find it).
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 09-03-2014 05:48 AM
You are amazing, Eva! That is correct.
You win one free week at the hotel!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-03-2014 06:40 AM
Great prize, thank you, Roger!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Linda Anderson - 09-03-2014 09:44 PM
Here's a link to an article on the Wormley Hotel.
"In the early 1850s Wormley was named as the steward for the Washington Club, located in what had been the Rodgers mansion on Madison Place facing the Square."
Seward, of course, was bedridden in the Old Clubhouse when he was assaulted by Powell on April 14.
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/presentations/the-half-had-not-been-told-me/wormley-hotel.html
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnToddFan - 09-04-2014 12:08 AM
How can I have never heard of this man?? I am embarrassed...he sounds simply amazing. I wonder if he has living descendants? Thanks Linda, as usual.
WAY TO GO Eva, for getting it right on the very first try!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 09-04-2014 08:25 AM
Actually it's Linda who deserves the prize and laurels, Toia, I just read the fantastic article she had posted here (post #7):
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-1888-post-37689.html?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Linda Anderson - 09-04-2014 12:01 PM
Thank you, Eva, but you answered the question and so deserve the rewards.
Toia, one of the commentators in the Streets of Washington article says that he is a descendant of Mr. Wormley.
http://www.streetsofwashington.com/2012/09/the-talented-mr-james-wormley.html
Also, there is a document in the Seward Papers that recounts Wormley's visit to Auburn with Seward.
"In addition to Frances’ work, there is an indication that William Seward, while a senator in Washington, DC, worked with African American hotelkeeper, James Wormley, to transport fugitives to freedom. A c. 1870 manuscript by Francis B. Carpenter in the Seward Papers notes:
“Among the visitors in the evening was Mr. Wormley, the well known colored landlord of Washington. Greeting him cordially and introducing him to his other guests, Mr. Seward said: ‘Wormley and I went into the emancipation business a year and a half before Mr. Lincoln did,
down on the James River. How was it Wormley – how many slaves did we take off on our steamer?’ ‘Eighteen,’ replied Mr. Wormley.”16
16 Francis B. Carpenter, “A Day with Governor Seward at Auburn,” handwritten mss., no date
[prob. July 1870], Seward Papers.
http://www.cayugacounty.us/portals/0/history/ugrr/report/PDF/5f.pdf
p. 122.