Mary Lincoln Extra Credit Questions

[Anita]

Excellent Eva. It is indeed William Martin Dickson. Dickson married Mary Todd's cousin Annie Parker.

" Dickson died on October 15, 1889, in a noontime accident on the Mount Auburn incline railway in Cincinnati. Nine passengers had entered the car at the foot of the incline. A cable broke just as the car reached the top, and it went crashing down into the passenger station below. The iron gate that formed the lower end of the track was thrown sixty feet down the street. Dickson, who was 62 years old, was one of the first of the wounded to die." Read about his impressive career.
http://civilwaref.blogspot.com/2013/09/w...tember.htm

Eva, the Auburn Incline closed in 1898 so you win a chance to climb the stairs that replaced it next time you're in Cincinnati. Go here to see the stairs. http://www.cincinnati-transit.net/incline-mtauburn.html