President Lincoln’s Stovepipe Hat
1 August 2008
We always see our 16th president, President Lincoln in pictures with the stovepipe hat, but did you know that not only was the stovepipe hat stylish for the day, but he used it for practical reasons as well? President Lincoln used to carry letters, bills, and notes in his hat. You can take a man out of the backwoods, but you can’t take the backwoods out of a man. Gee, I wonder if that’s where he carried the Gettysburg Address.
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