Editor’s note: In 2015 as I prepared to cover the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865, I was reminded of another story I had written two years before about Lincoln’s slippers. After he was assassinated, Mary Todd Lincoln, Lincoln’s wife, donated his wool slippers to Alexander Williamson, her sons’ tutor….
Lincoln Left Big Shoes – and Slippers – to Fill
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. faces the U.S. Capitol building. (Photo: RET)