Abraham Lincoln
(1861-1865)
- Honest Abe
- The Great Emancipator
- The Floatboatman
- The Rail Splitter
- The Sage of Springfield
- The Abolition Emperor or King Linkum the First
- The Uncommon Friend of the Common Man
- The Original Gorilla and The Orangutan in the White House
- The Sectional President
Presidential Trivia:
- First President to have a beard while in office.
- Lincoln, Nebraska was named for him.
- At 6’4″, Lincoln was the tallest president.
- Lincoln was the only president to hold a patent (for a device that for lifting boats over shoals).
- Lincoln was shot on Good Friday.
- A week before his assassination he had a dream that he was in the White House at a funeral and when he inquired who had died was told the president, he looked in the casket and saw his own face.
- There was a plot to steal his body so a secret society was set up to guard his remains.
- His mother dies after her cow ate wild mushrooms and she drank her milk.
- He was the first president to be photographed at his inauguration. John Wilkes Booth can be seen standing near him in the photo.
- Lincoln was the first president to be born outside the original 13 colonies.
- Lincoln and his wife held seances in the White House and had great interest in psychic phenomena.
- Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln arrived just on the scene of three presidential assassinations. He was coming to meet his parents at the theater just after the play and arrived after his father was shot; he went to a Washington train station to meet President Garfield and arrived just after he was shot and travelled to Buffalo, NY to meet President McKinley but got their just after the fatal shot had been fired.
AFter a while. do you think that people stopped asking Robert Todd Lincoln to drop by? For heaven’s sakes, he shows up and someone dies – I wouldn’t have wanted him stopping by my house.
Also a little known fact: Honest Abe invented one of the first pre-packaged children toys – a building set. Abe named the toy “Building logs of Miniture and Simple Structures for Recreation and the Development of Basic SKills to Benefit Children”. The toy didn’t sell very well, although the jimgle was quite impressive. After his death, the name was shortened to “Lincoln Logs” and sales took off. That may make Abe one of the first president product endorsees too, but I’ll need to check those facts.
Good post, thanks. I’m delighted to see Man I Don’t Know My Presidents Monday back in action.
do you know where in the web can i fin abe’s authored articles like the ” UNCOMMON MAN?”
children toys that are brightly colored are the best toys to give to your kids, just make sure they are not made in china ”