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J. T. (Jonathan Todd) Hobson
b. 1850
Best known for writing about Abraham Lincoln, this early-20th-century compiler and author gathered anecdotes, quotations, and historical sketches meant to keep Lincoln’s memory vivid for everyday readers.
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Footprints of Abraham Lincoln Presenting many interesting facts, reminiscences and illustrations never before published
by J. T. (Jonathan Todd) Hobson
About the author
Born in 1850, J. T. Hobson is identified in library and archival records as Jonathan Todd Hobson. The surviving public record is thin, but his books show a clear and lasting interest in Abraham Lincoln and in presenting history in an accessible, popular form.
His best-known work is Footprints of Abraham Lincoln (1909), published in Dayton, Ohio by Otterbein Press. Archive and Project Gutenberg records describe it as a collection of facts, reminiscences, and illustrations about Lincoln, with an emphasis on material that had not been widely published before.
Hobson also compiled The Lincoln Year Book (published in 1907, with later editions) and wrote The Master and His Servant (1913), a comparative study linking the lives of Jesus Christ and Abraham Lincoln. Taken together, these books suggest a writer who approached Lincoln not just as a political figure, but as a moral and inspirational one for a broad general audience.