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10-12-2020, 05:44 AM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Thurlow Weed?
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10-12-2020, 06:46 AM,
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Nope, not Thurlow Weed.
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10-12-2020, 07:50 AM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
I am going to guess Henry Ford. Writing does not read like mid-1800s to me.
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10-12-2020, 08:12 AM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Was the quote taken from John D. Rockefeller?
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10-12-2020, 08:23 AM,
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Nope, it's not Ford or Rockefeller.

Hint #2: I think the name will be familiar to all forum members.
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10-12-2020, 08:48 AM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Leo Tolstoy?
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10-12-2020, 09:44 AM, (This post was last modified: 10-12-2020, 09:44 AM by Rob Wick.)
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Is it Henry J. Raymond?

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10-12-2020, 09:50 AM,
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Nope, it's not Tolstoy or Raymond.

Hint #3: The person has been mentioned several times on this forum.

Hint #4: The person is male.
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10-12-2020, 10:26 AM, (This post was last modified: 10-12-2020, 10:27 AM by Rob Wick.)
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Reading the quote it strikes me as something written by someone who wrote for a living. My first thought was Whitman, but you said it wasn't him, so I thought maybe Raymond. How about George Townsend?

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10-12-2020, 10:53 AM,
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Nope, not Gath.
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10-12-2020, 11:51 AM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Well I'm stumped then. Roger, was he a contemporary of Lincoln or did he live after him?

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10-12-2020, 12:39 PM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Rob, he was a contemporary of Lincoln.
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10-12-2020, 01:51 PM,
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Was he a man of the cloth? clergyman? (I couldn't think of the word for a minute there!)
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10-12-2020, 02:08 PM,
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Nope, not a clergyman.
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10-12-2020, 02:37 PM,
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Someone who was well-known in his profession, not a clergyman, was a contemporary of Lincoln and has made many appearances here on the forum. Well, if my theory of it being a writer is correct, the only other person I can think of is Horace Greeley, but that sure doesn't sound like anything Greeley would have said about Lincoln, but that will be my guess.

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