#triviatuesday - Abraham Lincoln still holds the distinction of being the only U.S. president to ……..can you guess?

Today we celebrate the 210th birthday of our illustrious former President Abraham Lincoln with a TriviaTuesday question!

Not only did “Honest Abe” lead the country during the Civil War, issue the Emancipation Proclamation, deliver the Gettysburg Address and establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Today he still holds the distinction of being the only U.S. president to ……..can you guess?

The answer to today’s trivia question is:

To hold a patent in his own name. According to “U.S. Presidents Factbook” by Elizabeth Jewell, Lincoln’s patent “was for a device to lift boats over shoals or sandbars and was a product of his experiences working on the Sangamon River in Illinois, as well as a later experience of traveling in a boat and becoming stranded on a sandbar. The device was never manufactured. *

*From The “U.S. Presidents Factbook -- the American Presidency in Profiles, Statistics, and Headlines” by Elizabeth Jewel, published in 2005 by Random House Reference. It’s available for checkout at MidPointe Library.

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Images of Abraham Lincoln visiting the Middletown area in 1859, as well as a portrait, can be found on MidPointe Library’s Digital Archives:
http://www.midpointedigitalarchives.org/digital/search/searchterm/abraham%20lincoln/page/1