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Who is this person?
12-29-2018, 07:54 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
John Edgar Burton?
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12-29-2018, 08:21 PM, (This post was last modified: 12-29-2018, 08:22 PM by Rob Wick.)
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RE: Who is this person?
That's actually a very good guess, Steve, but it's not Burton.

Next clue. He began collecting in 1903
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12-29-2018, 09:01 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Samuel Sidney McClure or John Sanborn Phillips?
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12-29-2018, 09:10 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Sorry Eva, but it's neither McClure nor Phillips.

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12-29-2018, 09:28 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
James W. Bollinger?
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12-29-2018, 10:23 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
You got it Eva. It is James Wills Bollinger. His collection, while not in the same league as the "Big Five" was quite impressive. The collection now resides in the University of Iowa. Here is part of it.

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/search/.../bollinger

If one types "James W. Bollinger" into Google, one of the first hits is an article on Bollinger's collecting.

Good job, Eva!

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12-30-2018, 06:21 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
OK, now that I've figured out how to post pictures, here is another. Who is this couple? This could either be fairly easy or somewhat difficult.

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12-30-2018, 06:43 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
any connection to the Roosevelt family?
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12-30-2018, 07:10 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Historians Ruth and James Randall
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12-30-2018, 07:35 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Steve got it right. It is James and Ruth Painter Randall (albeit a younger James). I had a feeling it was too easy.

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12-30-2018, 09:18 PM,
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RE: Who is this person?
(12-30-2018, 07:35 PM)Rob Wick Wrote: Steve got it right. It is James and Ruth Painter Randall (albeit a younger James). I had a feeling it was too easy.

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Yes, far too easy. Thats why I threw in the red herring about the Roosevelts.
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01-01-2019, 12:03 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
This person knew Carl Sandburg. Who is it?

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
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01-01-2019, 06:05 AM,
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Lloyd Lewis?
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01-01-2019, 11:36 AM,
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RE: Who is this person?
Sorry Roger, but it's not Lewis. This person said on his initial meeting with Sandburg that there was nothing in him to suggest "incipient genius."

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01-01-2019, 01:11 PM,
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Frank Lloyd Wright?
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