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Posted: 10/17/2004 8:38:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/17/2004 8:44:48 AM EDT
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Robert Lincoln became a successful lawyer and was Secretary of War under President Garfield.
Eddie Lincoln died at age 3 of tuberculosis. Willie Lincoln died at age 11 of typhoid fever. Tad Lincoln died at age 18 of tuberculosis. |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 8:46:08 AM EDT
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Damn. And people today bitch about healthcare. 
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Posted: 10/17/2004 8:49:52 AM EDT
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The last direct decendent of Abraham Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died in 1985.
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Posted: 10/17/2004 8:52:47 AM EDT
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Lincoln apparently has no direct descendents left.
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Posted: 10/17/2004 9:01:10 AM EDT
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Robert Todd Lincoln committed Mary Lincoln to an asylum. Considering she was nutz, not a bad move. He made his fortune in the railroad and had a mansion in Bennington, Vermont. It stands today and is open to the public (for an admission fee).
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Posted: 10/17/2004 9:27:12 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/17/2004 9:51:23 AM EDT
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Strange that so many were so sickly. I know that death of children was much more common back then, but 3/4 of your children to die before 18?
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Posted: 10/17/2004 10:00:49 AM EDT
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norman74: I guess that is why people back then had so many children, their survival rate was pretty low.
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Posted: 10/17/2004 10:00:56 AM EDT
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About right for that general time period. IIRC, Mozart had 4 or 5 kids and only one reached adulthood. The rest died really young. |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 10:08:55 AM EDT
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This was very common. One of those interesting historical footnotes is that Robert Lincoln was waiting for a train with Garfield when Garfield was shot in 1881. |
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Posted: 10/17/2004 10:20:34 AM EDT
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And the "forgotten" son, the one nobody talks about, Larry Lincoln, who bacame a ballet dancer and tip toed his way into obscurity.
Or the other forgotten son, Leroy Lincoln, who spent the latter part of his life claiming to be the dead presidents illigitement son. To no avail. |
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