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RE: Who is this? - RJNorton - 01-14-2020 07:21 PM
Who is this?
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RE: Who is this? - Rob Wick - 01-14-2020 07:28 PM
I'm sure I'm wrong, but is it a young Jack Lincoln?
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Rob
RE: Who is this? - AussieMick - 01-14-2020 08:19 PM
I'm (almost) sure that I've seen it most days for the last 6 months on the front of some website.
RE: Who is this? - L Verge - 01-14-2020 09:32 PM
I'm going to vote the same as Rob. Pretty sure that it's Robert's son.
RE: Who is this? - RJNorton - 01-15-2020 05:57 AM
Wow, I blurred the picture slightly, skewed it a little, and cropped it out of a larger photo, but Rob and Laurie got it right. Excellent! Yes, is it Abraham 'Jack' Lincoln II, son of Robert Lincoln. He is posing with a high wheeled bike known as a penny-farthing in the 1880s.
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RE: Who is this? - Gene C - 01-15-2020 08:34 AM
I would guess the bicycle is a photographers prop?
Somehow I can't quite picture Robert Lincoln running along side helping Jack learn how to ride that thing.
RE: Who is this? - RJNorton - 01-15-2020 09:19 AM
That could be, Gene, but the Republic magazine was quoted as saying (with regard to Robert's children), "The second is a boy named Abraham, about eight years old, who rides a bicycle like a professional in company with the sons of President Garfield and Attorney General [I. Wayne] MacVeagh." Both the boulder at the left and the backdrop are studio props.
Source: The Lincoln Family Album (Mark E. Neely, Jr. and Harold Holzer), p. 144.
RE: Who is this? - Rob Wick - 01-30-2020 01:32 PM
The male in this photo was one of the most important people in Lincoln's life. This photo was taken when the gentleman was older. Who is he?
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Rob
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RE: Who is this? - RJNorton - 01-30-2020 02:22 PM
Billy Greene?
RE: Who is this? - Rob Wick - 01-30-2020 02:29 PM
Good guess, Roger, but it isn't Greene.
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Rob
RE: Who is this? - RJNorton - 01-30-2020 04:03 PM
"Uncle Jimmy" Short?
RE: Who is this? - Rob Wick - 01-30-2020 04:33 PM
I can see a bit of a resemblance, Roger, but it isn't him either.
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Rob
RE: Who is this? - AussieMick - 01-30-2020 10:15 PM
I'd like to think it was Benjamin Austin Gollaher, but I dont see much resemblance to the other photos Ive seen of him ... I guess it could be him.
"I would rather see him than any man living." ~ President Abraham Lincoln about Austin Gollaher, on Gollaher's grave stone.
RE: Who is this? - Rob Wick - 01-30-2020 10:51 PM
Sorry Mike, but it's not Gollaher.
Clue: This man was one of Herndon's informants.
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Rob
RE: Who is this? - RJNorton - 01-31-2020 11:19 AM
Rob, was the person from New Salem?