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Thomas Lincoln Sr. (January 6, 1778 [a] – January 17, 1851) was an American farmer, carpenter, and father of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Unlike some of his ancestors, Thomas could not write.
Thomas Lincoln was born on April 4, 1853, [1] the fourth son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. His three elder brothers were Robert (1843–1926), Edward (1846–1850), and William (1850–1862). Named after his paternal grandfather Thomas Lincoln , he was soon nicknamed "Tad" by his father, for his small body and large head, and because as an ...
Benjamin Lincoln (1733–1810) was a Continental Army general during the American Revolutionary War, though he is not known to have direct familial links to president Lincoln. His English ancestors were some who first settled in Hingham, beginning with Thomas Lincoln 'the cooper', who was among several Lincolns that settled in Hingham when it ...
Thomas Lincoln Tally (1861 – November 24, 1945) [4] on or near April 16, 1902, opened the Electric Theatre in Los Angeles, the first movie theatre in that city and the first movie theater in California known to have been built from the ground up inside a larger building on the ground floor.
The most common ancestry of U.S. presidents is English, due to its origins as a group of former English colonies. With the exception of Martin Van Buren and possibly Dwight D. Eisenhower , [ 1 ] every president has ancestors from the British Isles ; Van Buren was of Dutch ( New Netherlander ) lineage and Eisenhower was of German ( Pennsylvania ...
English: T. L. Tally talks about his career in the motion-picture industry, Los Angeles. Photograph appears with the article, "Ex-Film King On Way Back," Los Angeles Times , 03 Sep 1935: A3. Date
Abraham Lincoln described himself c. 1838–39 as a "long black fellow" [42] and his "complexion" in 1859 as "dark", [43] but whether he meant either in an ancestral sense is unknown. The anti-Lincoln Charleston Mercury described him as being "of ... the dirtiest complexion", [ 44 ] as part of anti-abolitionist race-baiting. [ 12 ]
It was built in 1805 for Thomas Lincoln, who served in the American Revolutionary War and was appointed to the rank of brigadier general in 1809. The large 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, Federal Period, central chimney house is built on a traditional 5 × 4 plan, with a side-gabled roof and a large central chimney.