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(03-08-2020 11:19 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  Before making the above post, I went down to the San Francisco Public Library to check with the Fehrenbacher book to get the credibility rating of this Henry Wing story. Strangely, neither Henry Wing nor Ida Tarbell are referenced in the index to the Fehrenbacher book. Does anyone know why both names are omitted?

David, didn't the Fehrenbachers concentrate on contemporaries of Lincoln? This would explain why Tarbell was left out. I do not know about Wing.