Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggested that Bob Lincoln's attentions to Bessie Hale heaped fuel upon Booth's feeling against Lincoln Sr. Rather the reverse: that the son of Lincoln was the rival Booth could least brook. Such a suggestion might not be far-fetched in view of Booth's capacity for insensate passion, but it would be cruel now, and futile, to dig sorrow afresh from its burial under the years...
After Booth was "dead," Bessie Hale did not take Bob Lincoln. He himself took some one else, long before Bessie married. He chose Mary, daughter of Senator Harlan of Iowa. They were married in 1868. And as the years went on, the inadequacy of a remark attributed to a guest at the ball described, became increasingly apparent. The guest had referred to Bob Lincoln as "a young man who will be known as the son of a president, if posterity remembers...
Robert Todd Lincoln was born in Springfield, Ill., in 1843, in the little white house with green blinds where his ex-Congressman father had settled down to practice law. He was named for his Kentucky-banker grandfather, Robert Todd. He took after his impetuous, affectionate fault-finding mother. He attended the Illinois Industrial School at Urbana (later the University of Illinois) and was sent east to Phillips Exeter Academy. He entered Harvard Law School but left to become a captain on General Grant's staff. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox, whence he returned...
...special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 another request, this time from President Harrison, took him to London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Returning again to his native state, he refused to run for the U. S. Senate. George A. Pullman died and Mr. Lincoln became executor of his estate, enjoying a $400,000 fee and the presidency of the sleeping car company. He visited the Buffalo Exposition and witnessed a third presidential assassination, McKinley shot by Anarchist Czolgosz...
...retired to the Pullman board chairmanship and has since avoided the public eye. From his summer home at Manchester, Vt., or his big brick mansion in Washington, he issues into the limelight only on very pressing occasions, such as the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial by President Harding on May 30, 1922, or the hanging of his mother's portrait in the White House a fortnight ago, (TIME, Mar. 1, THE PRESIDENCY...