Excerpt from Reminiscences About Abraham Lincoln: Newspaper Clippings, Accounts, and Memories of Those Whose Lives Included an Encounter With the 16th President of the United States; Surnames Beginning With Co-Con Richard H. Coe, retired business man and farmer, who in his boy hood knew Abraham Lincoln, died at 4 p. M. Yesterday at his home in Rochester. He was 85 years old. Mr. Coe was the son of John C. Coe, a forty-niner who crossed the plains with an ox team in the first years of the famous California gold rush. The father was a personal friend and legal client of Lincoln, and Richard H. Coe recalled vividly even in late years of his life, of sitting on the emancipator's knee during a conference between the two men before Lincoln left for Washington Mr. Coe's father also claimed among his friends Col. William F; Cody, who became famous as-th'e Buffalo Bill of western plains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.