Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (July 19, 1904 - December 24, 1985) was an American male farmer known as the great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln. In 1975, he became the last undisputed descendant of Lincoln when his sister, Mary Lincoln Beckwith, died childless. Although Timothy Lincoln Beckwith was born to second wife Annemarie Hoffman Beckwith in the midst of the divorce process in 1968, Robert Beckwith argues - and the court agrees - that his paternity is highly unlikely, since he had undergone a vasectomy in the early 1960s.
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Biography
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith was born in Riverside, Illinois, to Jessie Harlan Lincoln and Warren Wallace Beckwith. Jessie's parents are Robert Todd Lincoln - son of Abraham Lincoln - and Mary Eunice Harlan. Jessie eloped in 1897 with Warren Beckwith, a classmate and soccer star at Iowa Wesleyan College. They have two children: Mary Lincoln Beckwith, who died in 1975, and Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith.
Beckwith attended private schools in Washington, D.C., and New York City Military Academy in addition to spending two years at his grandfather Robert Todd Lincoln's boarding school, Phillips Exeter Academy. Beckwith completed his "The Bear" picture report on January 15, 1913. He then received a law degree from Georgetown University. Later, he gave his profession as an "independent gentleman farmer", his legacy included working farming.
Beckwith enjoys a boating and sailing hobby and generally avoids media and publicity. On one occasion, a newspaper published photographs of himself as a young man when arrested for speeding in Omaha, Nebraska. Beckwith's first marriage, which lasted 30 years, was an older widow with a son ten years his junior.
His second wife had a son in October 1968, named him Timothy Lincoln Beckwith, and enrolled Robert Beckwith as the boy's father. However, Robert Beckwith is in the process of divorcing him, accusing him of adultery and denying the paternity of the child, as he underwent a vasectomy several years earlier. During the battle of divorce, the court ordered him to have his blood tested. He never obeyed orders, and the divorce court ruled that Robert Beckwith was not a father.
Beckwith and his third wife, Margaret "Maggie" Elizabeth Hogan Fristoe (1921-2009), married in 1979; he is portrayed in his obituary as the Air Force's wife and volunteer.
Beckwith lived most of his life in Vermont and Washington, D.C. He died on 24 December 1985 in Saluda, Virginia.
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See also
- The Lincoln family tree
References
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