Assassination Trivia

[ReignetteC]

(02-05-2015 08:25 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Thanks for your expertise, Reignette, in giving such a detailed response and in also explaining where the incorrect idea came from that had Lincoln wearing a full outfit of Brooks Brothers apparel on April 14. It's great to have your authoritative and "inside knowledge" of that emporium working for us!

You mentioned other merchants who supplied clothing to Lincoln. As a D.C. area girl, I'd be interested in knowing of any D.C. clothiers that did so.

Thanks, Laurie, for your kind and generous remarks.

Although I have not yet uncovered any D.C. clothiers of President Lincoln, I found some NY and Chicago merchants who did have the honor of supplying him with clothing.

A.D. Titsworth and Bros. - Chicago merchants - crafted a suit for President Lincoln's first inauguration. An article in the January 17, 1861 edition of the Chicago Tribune titled "A Suit for the President," noted "We know of one suit . . . the "Inauguration suit, made by Messrs. A. D. Titsworth & Bros., clothiers of this city, and altogether worthy of them and of Mr. Lincoln."

In January of 1861, President Lincoln wrote a note of thanks to a Boston merchant, Isaac Fenno, for a "very substantial and handsome overcoat."

And Mary Lincoln, in October 1861, questioned a bill from W. Hindhaugh & Company, NY tailors whose business was located in the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
"There is a misunderstanding," she wrote. "Mr [Fernando] Wood without any order or unsolicited, had Mr. L. measured, for a suit of clothes. Of course, it was not supposed, they were a present from you, but Wood mentioned that they were to be presented to the President - and nothing more was thought of it, until your bill was presented."