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07-14-2017, 06:39 PM
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It's one of my favorite generals, Gen. O. O. Howard!
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07-15-2017, 09:46 AM
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(07-14-2017 06:39 PM)Steve Wrote:  It's one of my favorite generals, Gen. O. O. Howard!

Wow! Quick and absolutely correct. Gen. Howard always had an interest in becoming a minister, but never did. One source hinted that his future wife put an end to that idea.

He was not an outstanding field commander, but he did go on to Christian deeds after the war as the first head of the Freedmen's Bureau and founder of Howard University and also Lincoln Memorial University that was previously mentioned in the post on Lincoln's canes. The latter deed was supposedly as a result of Lincoln once mentioning to him that he should do something for the people of Tennessee who had supported the Union during the war.
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07-27-2017, 05:00 PM
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What place is this?
   
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07-27-2017, 05:07 PM
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Does it have to do with Abraham Lincoln, Mary Lincoln, or both together?
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07-27-2017, 05:20 PM
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Mary - yes.
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07-27-2017, 05:42 PM
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(07-27-2017 05:20 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Mary - yes.

In U.S. or in Europe?
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07-27-2017, 05:50 PM
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In the U.S.
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07-27-2017, 06:15 PM
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It's the Rochester House in Jacksonville, Florida where Mary Lincoln stayed from November 1874 to March 1875.
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07-27-2017, 06:42 PM
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(07-27-2017 06:15 PM)Steve Wrote:  It's the Rochester House in Jacksonville, Florida where Mary Lincoln stayed from November 1874 to March 1875.

Steve - I just have to ask, "Do you have a photographic memory?"
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07-28-2017, 07:36 AM (This post was last modified: 07-28-2017 07:38 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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Kudos, Steve, it is. Here is a current photo and some very interesting haunted history, also on Mary's visit:
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMRN0...onville_FL
(Photo credit as required:
https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/26735 )
Steve, you win this fantastic historic steamboat trip on the Ocklawaha River as Mary allegedly did:
http://studiohourglass.blogspot.de/2012/...a.html?m=1

I know I've posted this before (before Steve joined) - John Hay BTW owned an orange grove in St. Augustine in the 1860s. It was in the northwest part of Lincolnville in the area of Sanford, Weeden, Bravo and Bridge streets. Hay later sold the grove to Gen. Henry Shelton Sanford, who had been Lincoln's chief diplomat in Europe and US Ambassador to Belgium from 1861-1869, and founded the city of Sanford, FL
   
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07-28-2017, 03:23 PM
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(07-27-2017 06:42 PM)L Verge Wrote:  
(07-27-2017 06:15 PM)Steve Wrote:  It's the Rochester House in Jacksonville, Florida where Mary Lincoln stayed from November 1874 to March 1875.

Steve - I just have to ask, "Do you have a photographic memory?"

Big Grin Nah, I wish. Angel
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07-28-2017, 05:10 PM
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May I ask how you came to know?
I had several times tried to find a picture of the place and it's just now that I succeeded. The article is pretty new - posted last November.
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07-28-2017, 06:55 PM
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(07-28-2017 05:10 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  May I ask how you came to know?
I had several times tried to find a picture of the place and it's just now that I succeeded. The article is pretty new - posted last November.

There was an article 2 years ago with a modern photograph of the building:

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article...lle/page/5

I just did a Google search now and there's a new article from last month with a slideshow with a bunch of old photographs/drawings of the Rochester House:

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/call-...lle-resort
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07-29-2017, 03:28 AM (This post was last modified: 07-29-2017 03:28 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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Fascinating - I was wondering how the house moved there - it must have been a pretty lightweight house as the boat looks somewhat light, too?! (I cannot see it carrying the weigh of a brick house despite you couldn't move that in one piece.)
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07-29-2017, 06:11 PM (This post was last modified: 07-29-2017 06:13 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
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This famous gentleman was a relative of someone of the Lincoln saga. One of his numerous accomplishments was the foundation of an "institution" of worldwide fame and prestige.
Whom was he related to (my guess - that is quite easy to figure), who is/was he, and what did he found?
   
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