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[J. Beckert]

You've nailed it, Roger! Lincoln Isham, Lincoln's great grandson (1892-1971), eventually settled on a 22 acre farm near Dorset, Vt, the next town north of Manchester. He gifted the hat to a friend who owned The Dorset Inn and it was returned to Hildene in 1984. It's amazing it's still in the pristine condition it is, because for years it was displayed by simply putting it out in the open air on a table and returned to a closet at night. I was told once by a docent at Hildene that it's believed to be the hat he wore to Gettysburg, but I have no clue where that information came from.