Genetic Lincoln
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05-08-2020, 03:59 PM
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RE: Genetic Lincoln
(05-08-2020 12:47 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Kees, who did a tremendous amount of research, listed Dr. Gatch under this category: Roger, The links are very much appreciated, and the one for "Dr. Charles A. Leale’s Report on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" answers a couple of questions I had, especially that Dr. Leale, not Dr. Gatch, was called as a witness. Also, Dr. Leale makes clear he was not relieved of responsibility until he requested Dr. Stone, Lincoln's personal physician, take charge after Mr. Lincoln was transported to the Peterson house. So much for my incorrect speculation. Meanwhile, it seems clear that the Gatch brothers were in attendance, and involved beyond that in some capacity, despite Kees' comment "The Gatch brothers’ story (if true) ended when Lincoln was removed from Ford's Theatre". Dr. Gatch's presence on a couple of lists shows he was at the president's bedside when he died. I don't know who the 2 gentlemen were that Dr. Leale mentions, who arrived before Dr. Taft and Dr. King. "When I reached the President he was in a state of general paralysis,[29] his eyes were closed and he was in a profoundly comatose condition, while his breathing was intermittent and exceedingly stertorous.[30] I placed my finger on his right radial pulse but could perceive no movement of the artery. As two gentlemen now arrived, I requested them to assist me to place him in a recumbent position, and as I held his head and shoulders, while doing this my hand came in contact with a clot of blood near his left shoulder." His account for the arrival of Dr King and Dr Taft comes later in the narrative. Be all that as it may, my interest in the brothers is relative to the relic from Mary Todd Lincoln's chair at Ford's Theatre. Once again I believe they'll fall a bit short, and the family legend is likely more true, that Lt. William H. Bower provided the relics. There is a firsthand account of the relics being in a frame that hung on the wall for many years in the home of Ethel Ida Bower (Goodwin) Swinney. Her mother was Ida Kirk (Bower) Goodwin, a sister of Lt. William H. Bower. Wm H Bower in the New York, State Census, 1875 Name: Wm H Bower Age: 35 Gender: Male Birth Year: abt 1840 Residence Date: 1 Jun 1875 Residence Place: Rochester Ward 10, Monroe, New York, USA Election District: Ward 10 Household number: 507 Relation to Head: Son Father's name: John Mother's name: Mary Bower Line Number: 10 Sheet Number: 53 Household Members: Name Age John Bower 62 Mary Bower 50 Wm H Bower 35 Ida K Bower 21 [Ida Kirk Bower m: Philip Swing Goodwin] Julia T McCormick 39 ******************* Wm H S Bower in the New York, State Census, 1865 Name: Wm H S Bower Gender: Male Relation to Head: Son Birth Year: abt 1838 Age: 27 Residence: Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA District: South Ward: 5 Line Number: 12 Page Number: 11 Household Members: Name Age Mary J Bower 46 Wm H S Bower 27 [Shown as a soldier] Ida Bower 14 [Ida Kirk Bower] Julia Tillelcomick 27 ******************* That's a pretty short path for provenance. For the Gatch brothers to have provided the relics they would have had to give them to a 2nd cousin a couple of steps higher in the Goodwin lineage. The family legend is most likely correct re: Lt William H. Bower. |
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