LINCOLN's "dysfunctional" descendants and their recent chauffeur (D.B.Cooper)

[UTUSN]

The LINCOLN family had "a fortune"? And the descendants were "dysfunctional"? Didn't the "Great American Family" consist of ONE member, since, for starters he said he wasn't interested in who his antecedents were, only what he would become, such that this probably applies to his descendants as well?


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http://www.nypost.com/seven/10042008/gossip/pagesix/abe_lincoln_link_to_hijacker_132014.htm

ABE LINCOLN LINK TO HIJACKER

.... In "The Last Lincolns: The Rise & Fall of a Great American Family" (Union Square Press), Charles Lachman, executive producer of "Inside Edition" and a former Post reporter, says "Cooper" was really Jack Coffelt, the chauffeur of Abe Lincoln's great-grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith.

Lachman writes that Coffelt, a boozing ex-con, charmed his way into Beckwith's life in a bid to get his hands on the Lincoln fortune, "seeing him as a perfect mark: rich widower, childless, infirm with Parkinson's disease, and none too swift." But when that didn't happen, Coffelt's "desperation over his failure to assume control of the Lincoln trust fund" may have driven him to turn hijacker. ....



The book traces the checkered lives of Lincoln's descendants - a "dysfunctional family of alcoholics, eccentrics and spoiled brats," Lachman tells Page Six. They include:

* Lincoln Isham, a great-grandson and Manhattan bon vivant who spent most of his time composing silly, unpublished songs.

* Peggy Beckwith, a great-granddaughter who was a recluse and shared the family mansion with wild raccoons and rabbits.

* Jessie Lincoln, a granddaughter who had three unhappy marriages and further disgraced the family by cheating on her second husband.

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[amdezurik]

1. and the relevenece to anything?

"Cooper" was not his descendant

[UTUSN]

2. Who said he was?!1 & why do you respond to something you're not interested in?!1 n/t

[amdezurik]

3. why are you trying to smear Abe?

[UTUSN]

4. Dear Clueless, ....oh, never mind. n/t

[fla nocount]

5. I think that I would've liked Peggy. n/t