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Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (July 19, 1904 – December 24, 1985) was an American gentleman farmer and the great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln. In 1975, he became the last known undisputed legal descendant of Lincoln when his sister, Mary Lincoln Beckwith , died without children.
Robert Todd Lincoln was born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1843. He received his education from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, but four months after entering Harvard, he left to join the Union Army, ultimately serving on General Ulysses S. Grant's staff. Son of slain President Abraham Lincoln, Robert Lincoln returned to Illinois ...
Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, felt cursed. One of his brothers, Edward, died as a boy in Springfield, Illinois long before their father became president. A second brother, William, died in the White House on February 20, 1862. The death of “Willie” made the Civil War’s dark days that much darker ...
Dec 19, 2021 · Robert Todd Lincoln was present or nearby for the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley. ... Secretary of War Robert Lincoln, not pictured, was standing about 40 ...
Family: Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) Robert Todd Lincoln, or “Bob” and “Prince of Rails” (a nickname developed on the President-elect’s trip to Washington and one which Robert detested), was named after Mary Todd’s father and was the oldest of the Lincoln children. Cross-eyed as child, he developed into a reserved but determined ...
Robert Todd Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln’s oldest son, was a student at Harvard during most of the Civil War. On July 1–3, 1863, when Union forces under General George G. Meade stopped the northern advance of General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate forces at the Battle of Gettysburg, “Bob” Lincoln had finished his spring semester at Harvard and was free to travel elsewhere.
Apr 10, 2015 · Robert Todd Lincoln, first child of Mary and Abraham, was born on August 1, 1843, in a boarding house called the Globe Tavern in Springfield. (This was before Lincoln had purchased the house on Eighth and Jackson Streets.) He was named after Mary's father, Robert Smith Todd.
