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Thomas “Tad” Lincoln (April 4, 1853 – July 15, 1871) was the fourth and youngest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. Tad was named after Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father who had died in 1851. Tad’s head was unusually large at birth. Abraham, viewing the contrast between the large head and tiny baby figure, thought ...
Tad Lincoln in Germany. After President Lincoln’s death, Mary Todd Lincoln clung to her youngest son, Thomas “Tad” Lincoln. The mother-son duo was inseparable. Mary and Tad traveled to Europe together in late 1868 to escape the public scrutiny at home and to properly grieve. The two initially settled in Frankfurt, Germany, where Tad ...
Tad would be singled out and hurrahed (“huzzahed”) as the flesh-and-blood son of the nation’s father. Reaching the age of twelve meant that Tad Lincoln had outlived his next older brother Willie, who had died at age eleven in 1862, leaving his family desolate. For Tad, this warm spring day shared with his father offered a memory to ...
Lincoln so tenderly loved, it has been. the writer's rare fortune to stumble. upon three true stories of which even. his brother Robert was not aware. The adventure of the boy's re-. venge on the Secretary of War was. vividly described by the White. House guard who afterwards be-. came a well-known physician in.
13. Nov. 2009 · On March 20, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln’s sons, Willie and Tad, are diagnosed with the measles, adding to the president’s many troubles.. Few U.S. presidents worked as hard in office as ...
Family: Thomas Lincoln (1853-1871) The youngest Lincoln son was named after Abraham Lincoln’s father, Thomas, but “Tad’s” nickname stemmed from his father’s belief that he resembled a tadpole at birth. He was rambunctious child who was a favorite of his father, particularly after the death of his bosom brother, Willie.
Tad Lincoln was known to be impulsive and unrestrained, and he did not attend school during his father's lifetime. He had free run of the White House, and there are stories of him interrupting presidential meetings, collecting animals, and charging visitors to see his father. He died unexpectedly of an illness at the age of 18 on July 15, 1871, in Chicago.
