... at least his granddaughter, Jesse, did; Jesse not only slept here, but she also gave birth in Riverside to Abraham's great grandchild, the last direct descendent of Abe !+
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From the Sun Times, today, 3/12/07, in an article about Lincoln:
"An old marketing adage states that no product exists whose stakes cannot be improved by associating it with Abraham Lincoln."
I recalled reading decades ago that there was a blood relative of Abraham Lincoln connected to Riverside.
Sure enough I confirmed my recollection and found that Abe's great grandchild, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, the last direct descendent of Lincoln, was born and lived in Riverside in 1904.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/u/n/Terence-L-Duniho/GENE5-0003.html?Welcome=994421501
iii. ROBERT TODD LINCOLN "BUD" BECKWITH, b. July 19, 1904, Riverside, Illinois30; d. December 24, 1985, Saluda Home, Rte 17, Saluda, Middlesex Co., VA
His mother who of course also lived in Riverside, was Jesse Lincoln (Harlan). She was a daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln, who was one of the sons of Abraham Lincoln. He is pictured with Abe below.
And here Robert Todd Lincoln is as an older person. He's obviously pretty important to be a "Time Man of the Year", and his daughter lived in Riverside!
here is some more Robert Todd Lincoln and Lincoln links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Todd_Lincoln
http://www.lincolnpresenters.org/Links.htm
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+And, there is some evidence that Robert's older sister, Mary Lincoln Beckwith, was also born in Riverside - in 1898.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/u/n/Terence-L-Duniho/GENE5-0004.html
[26. Connie Jo King, "Her Middle Name Was Lincoln: The Life of Mary Lincoln "Peggy" Beckwith," Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, 1995, 10, "The photo of Peggy was taken in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where she was born..." In "RTL Beckwith, as
remembered..." James T. Hickey says she was born in Riverside, IL.]
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The family tree
http://www.lincolnpresenters.org/FamilyTree.htm
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There is Lincoln DNA in Riverside!
ALL ABOARD !
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my recollection is that Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith was born on 200 something Scottswood. Can anyone confirm this?
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Even tho I do not have direct documentary evidence for all the dots, let me connect the dots that I have collected here:
* Robert Todd Lincoln, a son of Abe, lived most of his professional life in Chicago, in a house on Wabash Av.
* In 1875, daughter Jessie is born in this Wabash house
* Long about her early twenties she gets married - 1890's probably
* She moves out of the city and chooses to go to the suburbs to start her family. She is one of the three greatest people in the world, and she can choose to move to anywhere. she can move to Hinsdale, to Oak Park, to Evanston, to Wilmette, and she chooses to move to the Olmsted designed town of Riverside.
* She lives, and sleeps, in Riverside and she has her first child, Mary, in 1898 in Riverside. I am sure she walked to the Arcade with her child in the stroller for dry goods.
* her next child, after a still birth, is Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith born in 1904 in Riverside. He died in 1985 trying to find tenants for the Arcade Building