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Who is this person?
02-20-2014, 04:30 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
James Speed.
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02-20-2014, 04:36 PM,
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Splendid, Eva! You are correct. Good job!!! Also, congratulations to Roger M. for being so close.
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02-21-2014, 09:18 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Who is this gentleman?
   
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02-21-2014, 09:29 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
To me he bears a resemblance to William Crook, well advanced in years.
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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02-21-2014, 09:51 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Side view of Horace Greeley?
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02-21-2014, 01:59 PM, (This post was last modified: 02-21-2014, 02:39 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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RE: Who is this person?
Brilliant guesses, but, sorry, neither of them.

Hint #1: Gene is right, this photo depicts the gentleman in older age. At the time of Lincoln's death he was in his fourties.

Hint #2: Roger, you are very close in guessing Horace Greeley. He was a journalist, too.
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02-21-2014, 02:30 PM,
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OK, Eva, I will stick with the "newspaperman theme."

Noah Brooks in old age?
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02-21-2014, 02:38 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Good guess, Roger, but this gentleman was much closer to Greeley.
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02-21-2014, 03:28 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Next guess: Charles Dana?
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02-22-2014, 06:36 AM,
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Fantastic, Roger! Well done! It is indeed Charles Dana.
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03-01-2014, 05:26 AM,
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Who is this gentleman?
   
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03-01-2014, 06:12 AM,
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Doesn't really look too much like John Nicolay, but it's all that immediately comes to mind. John Nicolay?
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03-01-2014, 08:55 AM,
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Good guess, Roger, but it's not John Nicolay.

Hint #1: In the 1840ies, he moved to Illinois.
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03-01-2014, 09:50 AM, (This post was last modified: 03-01-2014, 10:10 AM by Gene C.)
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RE: Who is this person?
To me, he resembles Joshua Speed (the way his hair sticks out on the side, his eyes, and eyebrows)

http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/uploa..._large.jpg
http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/photo...hotoID=235

But then again it could be Allan Pinkerton
http://www.americancivilwarstory.com/ima...kerton.jpg
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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03-01-2014, 02:29 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Kudos, Gene, it is Allan Pinkerton. On this photo IMO he resembles Ulysses S. Grant:
   
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