According to Stowe's son, when Abraham Lincoln met her in 1862 Lincoln commented, " So this is the little lady who started this great war.

Borglum commented that the fine texture of Alabama marble enabled him to portray the expression of kindness on Lincoln ’ s face that he had never been able to do with any other stone.

Lincoln's stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, commented that he " never took much interest in the girls ".

Dr. Martyn Percy of the Lincoln Theological Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, an authority on new religious movements, commented on the organization's nature of control: " It seems to me to be a fascinating form of religious control exercised on people.

" In response to an inquiry about his presidential intentions, Lincoln said, " The taste is in my mouth a little.

The chief advocate and driving force for improving public health in Chicago was Dr. John H. Rauch, M. D., who established a plan for Chicago's park system in 1866, created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with festering, shallow graves, and helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health in 1867 in response to an outbreak of cholera.

He and Douglas both spoke to the large audience, Douglas first and Lincoln in response two hours later.

MIT ultimately divested itself from the Instrumentation Laboratory and moved all classified research off-campus to the Lincoln Laboratory facility in 1973 in response to the protests, and the student body, faculty, and administration remained comparatively unpolarized during what was a tumultuous time for many other universities.

This emphasis is, in part, a reflection of the Methodist movement's earliest roots in The Oxford Holy Club, founded by John Wesley, his brother Charles, George Whitefield and others as a response to what they saw as the pervasive permissiveness and debauchery of Oxford University, and specifically Lincoln College when they attended.

In response to prodding from Lincoln and general-in-chief Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, Burnside planned a late fall offensive ; he communicated his plan to Halleck on November 9.

In April 1862, the joint session of Congress met, however, the border states were not interested and did not make any response to Lincoln or any Congressional emancipation proposal.

In response to opposition to conscription, however, Lincoln again suspended habeas corpus six months later, this time throughout the entire country.

The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U. S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator ; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.

Supporters ' trusts were commonly founded in response to a financial crisis which threatens the future of a team, as was the case at Chesterfield, Lincoln City and York City.

In response, General Washington refused to accept O ' Hara's sword, directing O ' Hara to present it to Lincoln, his second-in-command, instead.

The Escalade was introduced for the 1999 model year in response to German and Japanese competitors and to Ford's 1998 release of the Lincoln Navigator.

In response to Watson's threats, the United States Park Police cordoned off a large area on the Mall extending from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument.

At Seward ’ s request, Lyons gave him an unofficial copy of the British response which Seward immediately shared with Lincoln.

In response to the downsized Cadillacs, Lincoln began running a series of ads in late 1985 titled " The Valet " which depicted parking attendants having trouble distinguishing Cadillacs from lesser Buicks, Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs, and even Chevrolets, with the question " Is that a Cadillac?

( Excerpts from the text of the actual letter ) The response, dated a year later, came from Lincoln.

United States president Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for the states to raise 75, 000 volunteers for ninety days to suppress the South ; in response to the proclamation, an additional four states seceded and joined the Confederacy, which also started raising troops.

Hazen publicly criticized Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln for his handling of the affair, citing his refusal to send further assistance after the failure of Garlington's rescue mission, until Greely's wife, Henrietta, forced Lincoln to act in response to outraged public opinion.

This incident is notable for the response it generated from Lincoln, a lengthy letter wherein the president sets out his views on what the Constitution allowed him to do in wartime.

When President Lincoln signed legislation creating the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in March, 1865, the nation was in a period of heightened emotional response to the approaching peace.

In response to the death of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, he imprisoned a Jew named Copin or Jopin and obtained a confession in return for a promise to save his life ( a promise the king repudiated ).

Lincoln Reservoir was begun in 1889, in response to the Great Seattle fire of 1889, and completed in 1901.

* The early 1980s were a time of hardship, with Lincoln Electric's sales dropping 40 percent in response to the combined effects of inflation, sharply higher energy costs, and a national recession.

Four of these have been previously canonized as saints, namely William of Norwich, Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Simon of Trent ( Simon was decanonized in the 20th century ), and Gavriil Belostoksky who remains canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Other historians have been more cautious in interpreting this material, noting that chroniclers also reported John's personal interest in the life of St Wulfstan of Worcester and his friendships with several senior clerics, most especially with Hugh of Lincoln, who was later declared a saint.

** Hugh of Lincoln

* Hugh of Lincoln, Saint, bishop

* Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln was an English boy whose disappearance in 1255 prompted a blood libel against the local Jews.

The war between England & France has become so brutal that Hugh of Lincoln is warned that " nothing now is safe, neither the city to dwell in nor the highway for travel ".

* Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln ( d. 1255 )

* The death of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln prompts the persecution of Jews in England, based on the blood libel.

* Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln ( b. 1247 )

Two of his foster brothers served as major generals in the Union Army during the Civil War: Hugh Boyle Ewing, later an ambassador and author, and Thomas Ewing, Jr., who would serve as defense attorney in the military trials against the Lincoln conspirators.

Painting by Sebastiano Ricci ( 1659-1734 ) depicting the founder of the Carthusians, Bruno of Cologne ( c1030-1101 ), adoring the Mary ( mother of Jesus ) | Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus | Infant Christ, with Hugh of Lincoln ( 1135-1200 ) looking on in the background.

St Hugh of Lincoln with swan

A swan is one of the attributes of St Hugh of Lincoln based on the story of a swan who was devoted to him.

He also wrote a life of St Hugh of Lincoln.

* Life of St Hugh of Lincoln

# Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke ( c. 1199 – November 1245 ), married Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln, granddaughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester.

The bishop of Lincoln, Hugh of Wells, was one of the signatories to the Magna Carta and for hundreds of years the Cathedral held one of the four remaining copies of the original, now securely displayed in Lincoln Castle.

The boy became named as Little Saint Hugh to distinguish him from Saint Hugh of Lincoln, but he was never officially canonised ( made a saint ).

* Hugh of Lincoln, Bishop of Lincoln ( 1186 – 200 ) and Saint ( at the time of the Reformation, the best-known English saint after Thomas Becket )

* Hugh of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln ( 1209 – 35 )

Hugh of Lincoln, Bishop of Lincoln, while visiting Godstow, noticed Rosamund's tomb right in front of the high altar.