Possible Lincoln artifact discovered!

[RJNorton]

The Springfield furniture seems to have become quite scattered. Beside what Laurie mentioned, some pieces, such as a four-poster bed, are presumed destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, having been taken there by Lucian Tilton, who first rented the home after the Lincolns moved to Washington.

When the Lincolns asked the Roll family to care for Fido they also gave the Rolls their horsehair sofa. (This sofa is now at Hildene I believe.) Other pieces, particularly those that ended up in the hands of Lincoln home tenant/collector/caretaker Osborn H. Oldroyd, took a circuitous route before they were returned to the Springfield home.