Extra Credit Questions

[RJNorton]

When he was a lawyer in the courtroom?

[AussieMick]

No, sorry, Roger. Not the answer I'm after.

There's a partial connection to one of my earlier questions.

Googling is fine.

[RJNorton]

How about in this image?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...,_1854.jpg

[AussieMick]

Yes ! You win the chockies, Roger. Eat them quick before the Use By Date.

After one of the debates with Douglas ...

"On Sunday, 11 July, Lincoln joined two friends for dinner, Isaac N. Arnold and George Schneider, after
which the three strolled down Lake Street, passing a daguerreotype studio owned by Schneider's Swedish
friend, Polycarpus von Schneidau....

The picture shows a different Lincoln from earlier photographs. "There is a look of craftiness in the half-closed eyes and the slightly twisted lips, as though the campaigner has just scored a clever point. This is the intellectual Lincoln,
his features alert and intense and his mind sharpened by the clash with Douglas" (Rinhart)

   

( I think the observer was using a degree of imagination in the description)

[RJNorton]

No googling please.

Abraham Lincoln and family arrived in Washington in late 1847 after Abraham had earlier been elected to the House of Representatives. The family took a room at Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse. What building today rests on the site of Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse?

[AussieMick]

A Chinese restaurant ... or maybe I'm mixing that up with ... no I'll go with that.

[Anita]

I just searched my photos from a trip to DC years ago. I remember looking for the location of Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse when we went to the Library of Congress. Is it either part of the LOC or a public building next to it?

[RJNorton]

Michael, you probably were thinking of Mary Surratt's boardinghouse. Anita, you are correct. Kudos! My source says the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.

Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse (second from left)

[AussieMick]

Yes, Roger. I was indeed thinking of Mary Surratt's.

[RJNorton]

What is depicted in this sketch?

[Gene C]

The gentleman in the center of the crowd appears to be holding a book, perhaps a bible.
Could be for a funeral or a wedding.
I'll guess Nancy Hanks funeral.

[RJNorton]

Brilliant, Gene! On October 5, 1818, Nancy Hanks Lincoln passed away at the age of 34. In later years, Abraham would recall helping to carve pegs for his mother's coffin. Thomas Lincoln hauled the coffin, which was made of green pine, on a sled to the top of a thickly wooded hill and buried Nancy without a formal funeral service. Several months later, the Reverend David Elkins preached a funeral sermon above Nancy's grave.

Source of image: page 60 of The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fisher Browne.

[David Lockmiller]

Brilliant, Gene! On October 5, 1818, Nancy Hanks Lincoln passed away at the age of 34. In later years, Abraham would recall helping to carve pegs for his mother's coffin. Thomas Lincoln hauled the coffin, which was made of green pine, on a sled to the top of a thickly wooded hill and buried Nancy without a formal funeral service. Several months later, the Reverend David Elkins preached a funeral sermon above Nancy's grave.

Source of image: page 60 of The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fisher Browne.

Abraham Lincoln would have been nine and a half years old at the time.

[Gene C]

I may not be brilliant, but I found an excellent, but slightly different web site where I remembered seeing that sketch - https://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln81.html

[RJNorton]

No googling please.

This little boy is holding something. What is it?