Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-26
ROBERT T.L|NCOLN
FOUND DEAD IN BED
Was Presidents Only Son to
Survive-Statesman and
Pullman Co. Head.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANCHESTER, VT. July 20
Robert T. Lincoln, only surviving son
of President Abraham Lincoln, was
found dead in bed at his Summer
home here today. His death was dis
covered by servants who went to call
him.
Mr.. Lincoln, who has served as Sec
retary of War, Minister to Great
Britain, and for years as president
of the pullman Co., of late had been
in feeble health. He would have been
SO years old on August /.
According to custom, servants went
to call him at 8 am, and it was then
that his death was discovered. a ply
sician said that he had probably died
some hours before. He came to
Hildene, the Summer place that he
had made his home for a quarter of
a century, during the middle of last
May. Since then he had gone out
only once daily for an automobile
ride. He took his customary ride
yesterday.
Daughter at Home.
One of his two daughters, Mrs.
Charles Isham of New York, was at
her Summer home here. Two of his
three grandchildren, Mary Lincoln
Beckwith and Robert Todd Lincoln
Beckwith, the children of his other
daughter, Mrs. F. E. Johnson of
Washington, came to Hildene a few
days ago.
He is survived also by his widow
and a third grandchild, Lincoln Isham
of New York City.
Robert Todd Lincoln was present
at the assassination of two American
Presidents, and within sound of the
shots that mortally wounded a third.
When young Lincoln was gradu-
ated from Harvard in 1864, his father
granted his request to enter the
Army. As a captain and member of
Gen. Grants staff, he witnessed the
fall of Petersburg and the surrender
of Gen. Lee at Appomattox.
Hurrying to Washington, the cap
tain arrived there on April IA, and
gave his father the first definite news
of the surrender. On the evening of
the same day he was in Ford's Thea
ter when John Wilkes Booth shot
and fatally wounded the President
Was Secretary of War.
Later in life, Lincoln, although ad-
verse to holding public Office, became
Secretary of War in President Gar
fields cabinet. He was supposed to
accompany the Chief Executive on
trip to the New England States July
2, 1881, but a last minute develop
ment prevented. He went to the sta
tion to explain, arriving just as Gui-
teau shot Garfield
Lincoln was among the many
prominent men invited to the Buffalo
exposition in 1901, and was nearby,
September 6, when Leon Czolgosz. an
anarchist fired twice at President
William Mckinley from close range,
one of the bullets causing the Ex-
ecutive's death eight days later.
After this. Lincoln avoided public
association with Presidents, and once,
when q friend asked if he would at
tend a presidential function, he re-
piled: @
mo, I'm not going and they'd bet
ter not invite me. because there is a
certain fatality about presidential
functions when / am present"
Robert was Abraham Lincoln's
first child, born August /, 1843, in
Springfield, Ill. He not only was the
eldest of FIVE children, but he out
lived them all. Before attending
Harvard. he was q student I'm the
University of Illinois and Phillips
Academy, Exeter, n. H.
Different From Father.
Inheriting virtually none of the
physical characteristics of his father,
Lincoln also was widely different in
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