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02-20-2014, 03:30 PM
Post: #406
RE: Who is this person?
James Speed.
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02-20-2014, 03:36 PM
Post: #407
RE: Who is this person?
Splendid, Eva! You are correct. Good job!!! Also, congratulations to Roger M. for being so close.
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02-21-2014, 08:18 AM
Post: #408
RE: Who is this person?
Who is this gentleman?
   
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02-21-2014, 08:29 AM
Post: #409
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To me he bears a resemblance to William Crook, well advanced in years.

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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02-21-2014, 08:51 AM
Post: #410
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Side view of Horace Greeley?
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02-21-2014, 12:59 PM (This post was last modified: 02-21-2014 01:39 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #411
RE: Who is this person?
Brilliant guesses, but, sorry, neither of them.

Hint #1: Gene is right, this photo depicts the gentleman in older age. At the time of Lincoln's death he was in his fourties.

Hint #2: Roger, you are very close in guessing Horace Greeley. He was a journalist, too.
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02-21-2014, 01:30 PM
Post: #412
RE: Who is this person?
OK, Eva, I will stick with the "newspaperman theme."

Noah Brooks in old age?
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02-21-2014, 01:38 PM
Post: #413
RE: Who is this person?
Good guess, Roger, but this gentleman was much closer to Greeley.
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02-21-2014, 02:28 PM
Post: #414
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Next guess: Charles Dana?
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02-22-2014, 05:36 AM
Post: #415
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Fantastic, Roger! Well done! It is indeed Charles Dana.
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03-01-2014, 04:26 AM
Post: #416
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Who is this gentleman?
   
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03-01-2014, 05:12 AM
Post: #417
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Doesn't really look too much like John Nicolay, but it's all that immediately comes to mind. John Nicolay?
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03-01-2014, 07:55 AM
Post: #418
RE: Who is this person?
Good guess, Roger, but it's not John Nicolay.

Hint #1: In the 1840ies, he moved to Illinois.
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03-01-2014, 08:50 AM (This post was last modified: 03-01-2014 09:10 AM by Gene C.)
Post: #419
RE: Who is this person?
To me, he resembles Joshua Speed (the way his hair sticks out on the side, his eyes, and eyebrows)

http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/uploa..._large.jpg
http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/photo...hotoID=235

But then again it could be Allan Pinkerton
http://www.americancivilwarstory.com/ima...kerton.jpg

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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03-01-2014, 01:29 PM
Post: #420
RE: Who is this person?
Kudos, Gene, it is Allan Pinkerton. On this photo IMO he resembles Ulysses S. Grant:
   
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