Lincoln Writes Poems to Two Young Girls during the 1858 Campaign ...

While in Winchester, Lincoln stayed at a hotel operated by Robert E. Haggard. Haggard, a 51-year-old native of Kentucky, had seven daughters who ranged in age from 9 to 26.[3] One of these girls, 21-year-old Rosaline Haggard, was bold enough to approach Lincoln with ... The earliest surviving example of Lincoln's signature in an album dates to February 23 of 1858, when he signed the first page of a book belonging to Henry Rankin, a law student in his office: “To-day, Feb . ...