Word: lincolniana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chin whiskers entered Ford's Theatre in Washington to see a performance of Our American Cousin. Eleven hours later he was dead. Last week on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination famed Collector Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach exhibited in his cluttered Philadelphia office a collection of Lincolniana which he values at more than $1,000,000. An important item was the notes of Dr. Charles S. Taft, the army surgeon who attended Lincoln's last hours...
...district, merged it with North Woodward Christian Church, raised money in 1928 for a fine new building for the united congregation. In Detroit, Dr. Jones is a civic pillar and the official Chaplain of famed Nancy Brown's column in the News. Dr. Jones possesses a roomful of Lincolniana and knows the calls of practically all U. S. birds. Dr. Jones's recipe for a good preacher: "He should get religion like a Methodist; experience it like a Baptist; be sure of it like a Disciple; stick to it like a Lutheran; pay for it like a Presbyterian...
...Sangamon County, Ill. where a tall, gaunt Republican lawyer once practiced his profession, another tall Republican lawyer today collects Lincolniana. His name is Benjamin Savage DeBoice. For five years Lawyer DeBoice has served as probate judge in Sangamon County. He helped to send Springfield's ex-Mayor John S. Schnepp to jail for embezzling money from an estate, won a high reputation for strict, conservative decisions governing administrators of estates. To a Springfield trust company which asked his permission to invest the funds of seven estates in U. S. Government bonds-most famed of all conservative investments-he last...
...college tutorial plans and reading periods (before examinations) have cut into the crammer's trade. And Harvard's most famed crammery died with William Whiting ("Widow") Nolen in 1923. Graduated from Harvard in 1884 (summa cum laude), "Widow" Nolen left to Harvard his fine collection of Lincolniana, as well as $36,000 to a Miss Beseley of Brattle Street. Harvard's Nolen, like Yale's Samuel B. ("Rosie") Rosenbaum and Princeton's John Hun, represented the highest type of crammer, but of them all it might have been written as it was of him: Dead...