Tad Saves Jack the Turkey

[RJNorton]

Hi Jeanie and welcome to the forum. I have also wondered if the story were apocryphal, although I do have a web page on the topic. I do not know the answers to all your questions.

The sources I used:

The story of Jack is told in a footnote on page 225 of Louis A. Warren's Lincoln's Youth Indiana Years Seven to Twenty One 1816-1830. Additional sources on the turkey pardon include p. 170 of Lincoln's Sons by Ruth Painter Randall and pp. 111-112 of Tad Lincoln: Mischief-Maker in the White House by John D. Weaver