Tad Lincoln

[Linda Anderson]

Dave, I've seen that sad picture of Robert Lincoln's son recently and I can't remember where.

ewtsmail, Thanks for bringing up the story of Tad Lincoln and the Taft brothers from Tad Lincoln's Father.

Julia Taft Bayne's father was Horatio Nelson Taft who was an examiner in the Patent Office. Her half brother was Charles Sabin Taft who attended President Lincoln after he was shot.

This is from a description of Horatio Nelson's Diary:

"In her grief, Mary Todd Lincoln wanted nothing further to do with the Tafts, and Tad Lincoln, immature and highly impressionable, adopted his mother's unseemly behavior in adverse situations. Both hurt and angry, Taft sent his wife and children to Sag Harbor on Long Island to live with his wife's parents. He stayed on in Washington, living in a series of boarding houses and visiting his family every three or four months. Mary Cook Taft had grown up in a seafaring family. She felt at home in such quiet isolation. But the children suffered, especially Julia."

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tafthtml/essay.html