doctors at lincoln's bedside

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(09-08-2014 05:20 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Kees, your research is amazing!! I compared your list to the list in the Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia. The encyclopedia includes a Dr. William Henry Ford. Have you ever come across that name in your research? You have a Charles Mason Ford in your list, so perhaps this is just a typo in the encyclopedia.

Roger, just as hammering one nail doesn’t make one a carpenter, so the old joke goes, neither does making one list qualify one as a scholar, so who am I to consider my list as the most complete and only correct list and who am I to doubt the findings of Steers. In my opinion Steers is the foremost scholar of the assassination, but I never came across a Dr. William Henry Ford, except in the Lincoln Lore #627, April 14, 1941, providing the following list:

   

In my opinion they confused him with Dr. Charles M. Ford, like Ezra W. Abbott was confused with Anderson R. Abbott. In the Lincoln Lore list you also see Dr. Ashbel Woodward, but I still think he could be mixed up with pathologist J. Janvier Woodward. Do you know what Steers is saying about the two Woodwards in his Encyclopedia? Was Ashbel indeed at AL's bedside? Does anyone else know?

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Thank you LiToFa, Roger and Eva for your kind words! Very much appreciated.