Visiting Hildene, Home of Robert Todd Lincoln, Abe’s Son

And his descendants

MANCHESTER, Vermont — Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) — Abe’s son — was a self-made man. His father had little time for him and was murdered when he was just 21. Yet he became a very successful lawyer and a captain of industry who built two grand mansions — one in Chicago (torn down in 1960) and one in rural Vermont, which still stands as a monument to …