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Who is this person?
06-21-2025, 10:34 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
What is the name of the man viewing the Gutzon Borglum statue of Abraham Lincoln in Newark, New Jersey?

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06-21-2025, 01:19 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Wild guess, but is it Osborne Oldroyd?

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06-21-2025, 05:09 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
He's not a US Citizen?
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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06-22-2025, 05:29 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Osborne Oldroyd it is! Kudos, Rob!

Oldroyd loved to take long walks. In 1913, at age 71, he walked from the Petersen House to New York City. On the way he stopped to view the Lincoln statue in Newark.
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06-22-2025, 06:50 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
I think I should play the lottery. That was a complete and utter guess.

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06-22-2025, 09:19 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Rob, I would be most proud of you if you walked from the Petersen House to New York City like Olydroyd!!! I wonder how many folks on the forum could do that. I sure know I could not.
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06-22-2025, 02:48 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
I can barely walk a block without my back bothering me. Maybe it was shorter in Oldroyd's time.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
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11-23-2025, 12:58 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Let's see if anyone can answer this correctly without any research (googling, using books, etc.).

A person arrived in Springfield on January 1, 1843. Lincoln Day-by-Day says the person "arrived Saturday and is today's sensation in Springfield."

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11-23-2025, 06:22 PM,
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(11-23-2025, 12:58 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Let's see if anyone can answer this correctly without any research (googling, using books, etc.).

A person arrived in Springfield on January 1, 1843. Lincoln Day-by-Day says the person "arrived Saturday and is today's sensation in Springfield."

Who was the person?

Daniel Webster

I remember a little boy was told something like he was the "country's biggest man." The little boy went down to see for himself and returned to say one of Springfield's heaviest citizens (I forgot name) was "much bigger."
"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch
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11-24-2025, 12:01 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Martin Van Buren?
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11-24-2025, 06:52 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Nope, it's not Webster or Van Buren.
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11-24-2025, 09:27 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
(11-24-2025, 06:52 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Nope, it's not Webster or Van Buren.


I just reread the book a few months ago. Was it an animal?
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11-24-2025, 12:02 PM,
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Nope, it was a human.
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11-24-2025, 03:31 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Wild guess, but could it be Horace Greeley?

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
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11-24-2025, 08:55 PM,
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Nope, it's not Greeley.
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