A study found no evidence to corroborate that a beaver-skin stovepipe hat, a centerpiece of Illinois' Abraham Lincoln museum, ever actually belonged to Lincoln.
A study has found no evidence to corroborate that a beaver-skin stovepipe hat — for years a centerpiece of Illinois’ Abraham Lincoln museum — ever actually belonged to the 16th U.S. president, according to a published report.
Questions about the hat have been asked for the last several years. But the study by Illinois state historian Samuel Wheeler cast greater doubts than ever over its authenticity.Evidence that the hat sat atop Lincoln’s head rested on a claim by a southern Illinois farmer, William Waller, who said Lincoln gave him the hat in friendship. A 1958 affidavit from a descendant of Waller’s claimed the gift came when the farmer visited Lincoln in Washington after 1861.
With secret doubts of their own, the private foundation sought to authenticate the hat over recent years, including a failed attempt to match DNA on the hat to Lincoln.Wheeler also found that Waller’s son, former state legislator Elbert Waller, never appeared to mention the hat in hundreds of pages of writing. Wheeler said the decision by Elbert Waller’s widow to sell the hat for $1 in the 1950s also raised red flags.
The new chairman of the presidential library board, former federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, praised the study.
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