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Lincoln height debate echoed in Boston Journal feature
The April Graduate Journal of Boston University presents Abraham Lincoln analysis by Joseph George Jr. of Bay View Avenue. It discusses Volk’s Lincoln mask, Brown’s journal entry, and the Lincoln Group of Boston, noting Lincoln stood six feet four inches according to some contemporaries and six feet one inch per Volk’s measurements.
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Graduate Journal of
Boston University
Abraham Lincoln
Joseph George, Jr
Joseph George
Bay View Avenue
Leonard Wolk
Lincoln
George
Boston
Boston Sera College of Liberal Arts
F Lauriston Bullard
Kenneth A. Bernard
Henry B. Rankin
Volk
Journal of the
Illinois State Historical Society
Rankin
J. Henry Brown
Springfield
Brown
John M. Read
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Chenery Library
Chenery
The
College of Liberal Arts
Leonard Volk
Mark Bortman
Samuel
Louis A. Warren
Century Magazine
Bortman
Judge Douglas
Douglas
Lancoln
Mr. Lincoln
Hatch