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RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 10-12-2020 05:44 AM

Thurlow Weed?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-12-2020 06:46 AM

Nope, not Thurlow Weed.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Dennis Urban - 10-12-2020 07:50 AM

I am going to guess Henry Ford. Writing does not read like mid-1800s to me.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rogerm - 10-12-2020 08:12 AM

Was the quote taken from John D. Rockefeller?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-12-2020 08:23 AM

Nope, it's not Ford or Rockefeller.

Hint #2: I think the name will be familiar to all forum members.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - mbgross - 10-12-2020 08:48 AM

Leo Tolstoy?


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 10-12-2020 09:44 AM

Is it Henry J. Raymond?

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Rob


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-12-2020 09:50 AM

Nope, it's not Tolstoy or Raymond.

Hint #3: The person has been mentioned several times on this forum.

Hint #4: The person is male.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 10-12-2020 10:26 AM

Reading the quote it strikes me as something written by someone who wrote for a living. My first thought was Whitman, but you said it wasn't him, so I thought maybe Raymond. How about George Townsend?

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Rob]


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-12-2020 10:53 AM

Nope, not Gath.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 10-12-2020 11:51 AM

Well I'm stumped then. Roger, was he a contemporary of Lincoln or did he live after him?

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Rob


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-12-2020 12:39 PM

Rob, he was a contemporary of Lincoln.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 10-12-2020 01:51 PM

Was he a man of the cloth? clergyman? (I couldn't think of the word for a minute there!)


RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 10-12-2020 02:08 PM

Nope, not a clergyman.


RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 10-12-2020 02:37 PM

Someone who was well-known in his profession, not a clergyman, was a contemporary of Lincoln and has made many appearances here on the forum. Well, if my theory of it being a writer is correct, the only other person I can think of is Horace Greeley, but that sure doesn't sound like anything Greeley would have said about Lincoln, but that will be my guess.

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Rob