- "He retired in 1902. As per his passport application of 1903, he was
5’7½” tall with gray eyes, gray and auburn hair, light complexion, high
forehead, not prominent nose, full and ruddy face with short-cut side
whiskers, and square chin." https://www.green-wood.com/2013/lincolns-telegrapher/
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
598) Charles Almerin Tinker
Charles Almerin Tinker (1838 - 1917). One of the nations's first
telegraph operators assigned to an office in Illinois where he became
good friends with a young lawyer who found himself fascinated by the new
contraption and asked Tinker to show him how it worked. Later, that
same lawyer, Abraham Lincoln, asked Tinker to serve as a cypher operator
on the War Department's telegraph staff in the White House during the
Civil War. Much of Charlie Tinker's detailed, personal diaries
chronicle his years working in the telegraph office where Lincoln spent
much of his day sending and receiving dispatches from the battle lines.
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