Curios and relicsFurniture . s owned lay Lincoln ABE LINCOLNS CHAIlRAWARDED IN LAW SUIT It Used to Be Part of White HouseFurniture. SPRINGFIELD. 111., June 26.—A chairthat was at one time the property ofPresident Lincoln has been awarded bya .iury to Georg-e B. Lloyd, plaintiff ma case tried in the Circuit Court here. The chair was made out of elk hornsby a famous old hunter and trapper, SethKinman, who gave it to Lincoln. Atone time it was a part of the furnitureof the White House. It descended byinheritance to Robert T. Lincoln, son ofPresident Lincoln, and was presented byhim to S. W. Lloyd
Curios and relicsFurniture . s owned lay Lincoln ABE LINCOLNS CHAIlRAWARDED IN LAW SUIT It Used to Be Part of White HouseFurniture. SPRINGFIELD. 111., June 26.—A chairthat was at one time the property ofPresident Lincoln has been awarded bya .iury to Georg-e B. Lloyd, plaintiff ma case tried in the Circuit Court here. The chair was made out of elk hornsby a famous old hunter and trapper, SethKinman, who gave it to Lincoln. Atone time it was a part of the furnitureof the White House. It descended byinheritance to Robert T. Lincoln, son ofPresident Lincoln, and was presented byhim to S. W. Lloyd, when Robert waspreparing to leave Washington. A son, George Lloyd, claimed tire cliair,but was disputed by his wife. Mr. and]\Trs. Lloyd had sepa,rated and tlie latterclaimed the chair was part of theproperty turned over to her by her hus-band. Lloyd claimed he did not Intend togive her the cliairC. He had in his pos-session photographs, newspaper clip-pings and letters, in which the historyof-the old chair is set THIS CHAIR BELONGED/TO UNCLE i I (Joi. MoiMy iYouth of Civil War Period Tells ofThe Abraham Lincoln He Knew By COL. THOMAS W. LLOYD. Daily Oklahoma. Williamsport, Pa., Feb. 8. —When I was a lad of 8. and AbrahamLincola was president, my father was appointed chief clerk of the houseof representatives a6 Washington. Our family removed from our Iioraein Pennsylvania to the capital city. The Civil war was then in fall progress. To see Mr, Lincoln face toface was at that time the height of my boyish ambition. Upon the occasion of an official visit to the White House my fatherbad told Mr. Lincoln of this childish wish, and, with the kindness of heartthat was so characteristic of him, the president told him to bring me withhim on his next visit, which had been set for a few days later. So it cama about that one bright morning in January, 1864, we droveto the executive mansion and, aftera short delay, were ushered mto thepresenseof Mr Lincoln, who received
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