(03-11-2020, 10:04 PM)Steve Whitlock Wrote: Who is this man. Hint#1: His son claimed that he taught A. Lincoln to survey, and worked with him on his penmanship.
I said penmanship, but it was more for English grammar and composition. Hint#2, he and Abe both fought in the Blackhawk War at the same time.
Hint#3, the man in the photo's first wife was a niece of Lucy Hanks Sparrow, Abe's grandmother.