Posted on 02/23/2009 11:31:52 AM PST by BGHater
A student at Miami University has discovered what experts say is a fingerprint belonging to Abraham Lincoln from nearly 150 years ago.
Lydia Smith, a first-year psychology major from Granville, Ohio, was transcribing a letter written by Lincoln on Oct. 5, 1863, for a class project when she noticed a smudge that she suspected could be the 16th president’s thumbprint. Lincoln historians have confirmed the print.
A student at Miami University has discovered what experts say is a fingerprint belonging to Abraham Lincoln from nearly 150 years ago.
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a project of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, reviewed and confirmed the print, making it the second rare fingerprint of the 16th president housed at Miami’s libraries.
The collection at Miami includes the first authenticated fingerprint of Lincoln with a signature known to historians since it was first verified in 1957. Lydia Smith's discovery of the second fingerprint has historians taking notice.
“Miami’s collection includes the first certified document that provides a critical comparison for us," said John A. Lupton, associate director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln project. “I have seen a number of fingerprints that I assumed to be Lincoln’s, but never more than one in one repository. The fact that Miami has two makes it fascinating.”
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Was he eating ribs at the time?
Maybe pizza.
Gee, are we sure it isn’t Obama’s?
(chuckle)
I hope Abe has Lifelock.
It’s enough to make one’s head whorl...
had to be BEEF RIBS
had to be BEEF RIBS
Maybe they can clone him from DNA in the finger oils and then he can rise from the grave to set us free from Obama’s debt slavery.
Interesting.
Seriously, I saw “Stealing Lincoln’s Body” on History the other day......
The stuff that happened to Lincoln after he was dead was awful.
People tried to steal his body, they moved it several times in the crypt, sometimes with workers stepping on it not knowing he was there.....just crazy.
He wasn’t finally buried to stay until after 1900! Every stinking time they moved him, people opened up his casket to make sure it was him, even that final time....absolutely creepy.
lol
He was chowing down on a bag of Doritos. :)
It ain’t easy bein cheesy.
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That’s cool. I had no idea they’d ID’d Lincoln’s fingerprints on documents.
Or belongs to the same dirty-fingered personal secretary....
:’)
Ahhhh...me old Alma Mater.....days of the water tower and 3.2% beer.
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