Old News from 2012

[Eva Elisabeth]

Here's a different explanation:
"Each month Lincoln wrote a check for about $800, according to Daniel Stowell, the director and editor of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. 'This was probably groceries and necessaries,' Mr. Stowell said. 'He obviously didn't pay any rent, but he did have horses to maintain for carriage and they had to be fed, so that's perhaps the equivalent of a car payment.'"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000142405...1674231688