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 Robert Todd Lincoln - Arlington VA Posted by:  Don.Morfe
N 38° 52.981 W 077° 04.178
18S E 320484 N 4305831
Presidential Cabinet Secretary-Secretary of War 1881-1885, US Diplomat. He was the first child of 16th United States President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln and was the only one of the President's children to survive past the age of 18.
Waymark Code: WM12N19
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 06/18/2020
Views: 3
He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Section 31, Site S-13
Description:
From Find A Grave: Presidential Cabinet Secretary, US Diplomat. He is best remembered as the first child of 16th United States President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln and was the only one of the President's children to survive past the age of 18. After graduating from Phillips Exter Academy at Exter, New Hampshire in 1860, he attended Harvard University at Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1861 until 1865. In February 1865 he was commissioned as an assistant adjutant with the rank of captain and served in the last weeks of the American Civil War as part of General Ulysses S. Grant's immediate staff, a position which sharply minimized the likelihood that he would be involved in actual combat. He was present at Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia on April 9, 1865 and two months later he resigned his commission. Following his father's assassination on April 14, 1865 he moved to Chicago, Illinois with his mother and youngest brother Tad where he completed his law studies at the Old University of Chicago law school (later absorbed by the Northwestern University School of Law) and was admitted to the bar in February 1867. In 1877 he turned down President Rutherford B. Hayes' offer to appoint him Assistant Secretary of State, but later accepted an appointment as President James Garfield's Secretary of War, serving from 1881 to 1885 under Presidents Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. In 1887 he assisted Oscar Dudley in establishing the Illinois Industrial Training School for Boys in Norwood Park, Illinois. In 1889 he was appointed the US minister to England (the Court of St. James) by President Benjamin Harrison, serving until 1893 during which time his young son, Abraham II "Jack", died from blood poisoning. After finishing his term, he returned to his law practice. In 1897 he became president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and in 1911 he became its chairman of the board until 1922. He died in his sleep at his home from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 82.
Date of birth: 08/01/1843
Date of death: 07/26/1926
Area of notoriety: Politics
Marker Type: Monument
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: None
Fee required?: No
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