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Abraham Lincoln’s New England Connections

Dr.  Thomas R. Turner, a well-respected expert on Abraham Lincoln, will speak about Lincoln’s local connections: ancestors in Hingham, his visit to Massachusetts to campaign for Zachary Taylor in 1848, his son Robert at Harvard, the Bixby letter, his contribution of $10 toward the building of the Forefathers Monument in Plymouth, and also his visits to New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut after his 1860 Cooper Union Address.

 

 

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