Posted on 05/01/2018 4:45:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
So a photo taken in Beardstown shows Lincoln without a beard. When did he grow it? Did he grow and shave it off several times before being elected president?
Lincoln never had a beard until after he was running for president as the Republican nominee. Famously, he grew the beard in response to a youg girl’s request.
I believe he kept the beard throughout his presidency. That would mean photos without were taken before he was elected.
Lincoln’s picture in the linen suit was taken immediately after he had won the acquittal of Duff Armstrong in the ‘Almanac Trial,’ 160 years ago today.
You are right. I posted an account of the trial at the anniversary of the murder - August 29, 1857 - but the trial wasn’t until the next year. I never realized that.
I read this book a few years ago, it has the Lincoln picture on the cover.
https://www.amazon.com/Moonlight-Abraham-Lincoln-Almanac-Trial/dp/0312229224
“Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial”
http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/the-women/hannah-armstrong/
“”Mr. Lincoln wrote “Aunt Hannah” in September 1857: “I have just heard of your deep afliction, and the arrest of your son for murder. I can hardly believe he can be capable of the crime alleged against him. It does not seem possible. I am anxious that he should be given a fair trial at any rate; and gratitude for your long-continued kindness to me in adverse circumstances prompts me to offer my humble services gratuitously in his behalf. It will afford me an opportunity to requite, in a small degree, the favors I received at your hand, and that of your lamented husband, when your roof afforded me a grateful shelter, without money and without price.”””
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