# Is there anyone alive today who knew Robert Lincoln? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 29, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-alive-today-who-knew-robert-lincoln/620373 "2012-04-29T23:39:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![A\_Sniveling\_Mess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@A\_Sniveling\_Mess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Sniveling_Mess)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-alive-today-who-knew-robert-lincoln/620373/41 "2012-05-03T20:30:44Z")
TriPolar,did you get that test email that I sent? ---
**Author:** ![A\_Sniveling\_Mess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@A\_Sniveling\_Mess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Sniveling_Mess)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-alive-today-who-knew-robert-lincoln/620373/42 "2012-05-03T20:41:39Z")
Never mind,I saw the email you sent.Thanks for helping. ---
**Author:** ![JFS1057](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@JFS1057](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFS1057)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-alive-today-who-knew-robert-lincoln/620373/43 "2013-05-16T05:15:58Z")
> [@A\_Sniveling\_Mess](#): > > I doubt this thread will get any answers,but I cannot find an answer anywhere else,and this Website seems to be the best place to find interesting trivia.Anyway,I think it’s somewhat amazing that one of Abraham Lincoln’s sons lived until 1926,and even more amazing is the possibility that someone is alive today who met him.Of course,he did die 86 years ago,which is a huge length of time.But if someone saw him soon before his death when they were about 5 years old,they’d be about 91 years old now,so it seems possible.Also,he was at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922,and with the huge crowd there that day,I’d imagine at least a few people from the crowd are still alive who could have seen him.I’m not suggesting that my crazy theory is correct-I don’t think it is.I just think it’s an interesting idea.If you know anything about this subject please tell me.Or,if you’d prefer,you can give me directions to the nearest insane asylum that I can go to for suggesting the idea.:D(P.S.:There were _some_ people who had known Abraham Lincoln himself still living well into the 1940s,right?) I knew one person who had met Robert Lincoln in around 1907. Of course he is no longer with us. But he used to say to me "shake my hand " and I would. Then he would say “Good, now you are only two handshakes away from Abraham Lincoln”. He was a very interesting man who lived till 1992. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-alive-today-who-knew-robert-lincoln/620373/44 "2013-05-16T10:13:24Z")
Ms Johnson met him… Now Jessie Lincoln married a " Frank Edward Johnson". Maybe his relative ? Jessie marred someone else in 1926, but still maybe in 1925 there was a family connection between Ms Johnson and Robert. > [@sugaree](#): > > Frances Mantley, his grandson’s stepdaughter, would have been about 14 when Lincoln died and would be about 100 today, if still alive Frances died in 1983 [http://www.uk.mundia.com/gb/Person/40620991/20190756707](http://www.uk.mundia.com/gb/Person/40620991/20190756707) Frances Mantley 1908 - 1983 Lived in: Vermont, United States Died: Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-alive-today-who-knew-robert-lincoln/620373/45 "2013-05-16T22:56:07Z")
Slightly off-topic, but somewhere Lettie Cottin Pogrebin, born 1939 and still alive, mentions that as a small girl she shook hands with a man who told that these hands once shook hands with Abraham Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-alive-today-who-knew-robert-lincoln/620373/46 "2013-05-17T01:52:58Z")
I will always be glad to have shaken the hand of President Obama, as that “connects” me to all kinds of famous people. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Sniveling\_Mess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@A\_Sniveling\_Mess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Sniveling_Mess)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-alive-today-who-knew-robert-lincoln/620373/47 "2013-05-26T20:33:20Z")
> [@JFS1057](#): > > I knew one person who had met Robert Lincoln in around 1907. Of course he is no longer with us. But he used to say to me "shake my hand " and I would. Then he would say “Good, now you are only two handshakes away from Abraham Lincoln”. He was a very interesting man who lived till 1992. Wow.That’s an amazing story,and thanks for sharing it. If I may ask,do you know _how_ this man met Robert Lincoln? Either way,I really appreciate you sharing your experience with us all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-alive-today-who-knew-robert-lincoln/620373.md?page=2)