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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007Tomorrow is Tad Lincoln’s 154th birthday. He was the youngest of the four Lincoln children. Though he was named after his grandfather Thomas Lincoln, nobody called him by his given name. Supposedly, as a child, he had a large head and small body—causing his father to remark that he looked like a “tadpole.” The name [...]
Eddy Lincoln’s Birthday
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Today is Edward Baker Lincoln’s birthday. Better known as “Eddy,” Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s second son was born on March 10, 1846. “We have another boy,” Lincoln wrote shortly after his birth, adding “he is very much such a child as Bob [their oldest son] was at his age—rather of a longer order.” We don’t [...]
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