Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories . hand. In height six feet four inches, andweighed one hundred and seventy-six pounds. He was a spare,bony and muscular man, which gave him that great and untir-ing tenacity of endurance during his laborious the same article Mr. Jones quotes Mr. Lincoln, whowas usually so disinclined to speak of himself, as saying: AllI had to do was to extend one hand to a mans shoulder, andwith weight of body and strength of arms give him a tripthat generally sent him sprawling on the ground, which wouldso astonish him as to give him a
Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories . hand. In height six feet four inches, andweighed one hundred and seventy-six pounds. He was a spare,bony and muscular man, which gave him that great and untir-ing tenacity of endurance during his laborious the same article Mr. Jones quotes Mr. Lincoln, whowas usually so disinclined to speak of himself, as saying: AllI had to do was to extend one hand to a mans shoulder, andwith weight of body and strength of arms give him a tripthat generally sent him sprawling on the ground, which wouldso astonish him as to give him a quietus. The sculptor adds, Well might he send them sprawling,his arms were very long and powerful and his great strengthand height were calculated to make him a peerless Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, although hehad been for four years intimately associated with PresidentLincoln, as a member of his Cabinet, states in his diary thathe had no realization of his great strength until he saw hisbare arms as he lay upon his dying LINCOLN IN 1861 From a painting by J. L. G. Ferris, designed to represent the raising ofthe flag on Independence Hall, Philadelphia, by Abraham Lincoln onthe morning of February 22, 1861. By courtesy of the artist and Ger-lach-Barklow Co. LINCOLNS PERSONAL APPEARANCE 47 A writer in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin of Novem-ber 14th, i860, says: The beholder felt that here was a strongman, a person of character and power. Nicolay reproduces this statement of the Bulletin in hismagazine article before cited and in referring to Mr. Lincolnsgreat height declares that *it was a stature which of itselfwould be hailed in any assembly as one of the outward signsof leadership. In prosecuting the critical and prolonged investigationsby which he was preparing for the production of his famousLincoln statue which Mr. Charles P. Taft and wife recentlypresented to Cincinnati, George Gray Bernard reached theconclusion that Lincoln was probabl
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