He Served in Place of Abraham Lincoln

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(01-20-2016 07:36 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  This is his entry from Find-A-Grave. I'll look around in the newspaper databases for a more comprehensive biography:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi...66&df=all&

Here's an obituary from the Evening Star:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/s...nge&page=1

(Note the Jell-O ad in the newspaper. Didn't realize how long the stuff had been around!)

That's great, Susan. Thank you so much. The Evening Star was a very well-respected city paper well into the mid-1900s, so I would place great faith in the material that they included in the obituary. Lacking, of course, is any mention of his relationship with President Lincoln and of his securing Staples as a substitute.