When Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith died in 1985, obituaries across the nation acknowledged that he’d married three times but had no children. One of his wives, however, ...

Jason Emerson talked about Robert Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln's oldest son. He is the author of the forthcoming biography, [Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln]. Mr. Emerson ...

Robert Todd Lincoln was Abraham Lincoln's oldest son and the only Lincoln child to survive into adulthood. While he didn't make quite the mark on history that his father did, Robert Lincoln had a ...

Robert Todd Lincoln, right, stands with president Warren Harding, center, and former President William Howard Taft at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1922.

Robert Todd Lincoln was present or nearby for the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

According to the book "Robert Todd Lincoln: A Man In His Own Right" by John S. Goff, Robert Lincoln detailed the full incident in a 1909 letter to Richard Watson Gilder, a poet and editor of The ...

On May 30, 1922, before an audience of more than 50,000 people (including Abraham Lincoln's only surviving son, 78-year-old Robert Todd Lincoln) William H. Taft, Chief Justice of the United States ...

Robert Todd Lincoln was the legal counsel for Pullman after serving as secretary of war for Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur. When George Pullman, the company founder, ...