Leonid linkin biography of abraham

On November 13, 1833, Abraham Lincoln was awoken to the Leonid meteor shower, which is again happening now in 2022. Preachers thought it was the end of the world, but Lincoln knew better.

I briefly mentioned this incident in my earlier post, Abraham Lincoln’s Interests in Astronomy, but since this is the anniversary of that event wanted to dig deeper. The story comes to light by way of Walt Whitman, who worked in Washington as a nurse during the Civil War. He remarked that he routinely saw Lincoln riding to and from the Soldiers’ Home (now called President Lincoln’s Cottage) during the hot and pestilence-filled summer months. In a reminiscence written in 1882, Whitman provides an anecdotal recounting of a meeting Lincoln held with bank presidents during a time of great uncertainty in the Union war effort. There was great concern that the Union would fail.

After the meeting, one of the bankers gloomily asked Lincoln if his confidence in the permanency of the Union was not beginning to be shaken. Lincoln reassured the men, as he so often did, by telling a little story:

“When I was a young man in Ilinois, I boarded for a time with a Deacon of the Presbyterian Church. One night I was roused from my sleep by a rap

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Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln

Samuel Clemens, known to most of us by his pseudonym Mark Twain, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on November 30, 1835, shortly after Halley’s Comet had made its regular but rare pass by the Earth. The 26-year-old Abraham Lincoln – an amateur astronomy buff who two years earlier had marveled at the Leonid meteor showers – may very well have been gazing at the skies when Mark Twain came into this world. At that age Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, just a stone’s throw across the Mississippi River from Hannibal. In 1859, Lincoln rode the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad to give a speech in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The railroad just happened to be formed in the office of Mark Twain’s father thirteen years before.

Lincoln floated flatboats down the Mississippi River to New Orleans as a young adult, then took steamboats back upriver. He often piloted steamboats around shoals near his New Salem home. Mark Twain had worked on steamboats on the river for much of his younger years, first as a deckhand and then as a pilot. Being a riverboat pilot gave him his pen name; “mark twain” is “the leadsman’s cry for a measured river depth of two fathoms (12 feet), which was safe water for a steamboat.” In 1883 Twain even titled his memoir, Life on the Mississip

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Abraham Lincoln's Scrutiny in Astronomy

By David J. Kent

Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

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