OBITUARY.
MR. ROBERT T. LINCOLN. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. July 26. The death has occurred of Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln, the only surviving son of the late President Abraham Lincoln.. Mr. Lincoln was found dead in his home at Manchester, Vermont.
The late Mr. R. T. Lincoln was the eldest son of the former President of the United States, Mr. Abraham Lincoln. He was bora in August, 1843, at Springfield, Illinois. He finished his education at Harvard and studied in the law school of that university. He entered the army as a young man and fought in the Civil War as a captain on the staff of General Grant. In 1867 he was admitted to the Illinois Bar and practised law in Chicago. He was Secretary of War in the Cabinets of Presidents Garfield and Arthur, 1881-5, and was United States Minister to Britain, 1889-93. He had been chairman of the Pullman Company and a director of the Edison Company and the Continental and Commercial National Bank.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19391, 28 July 1926, Page 11
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