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Grace Bedell and the Journey of a Pioneer Family to Northern Michigan

Summary by antrimreview.net
By: Nancy Ritsema Statues of Abraham Lincoln and 11-year-old Grace Bedell in Westfield, New York, commemorate the day Lincoln greeted the young girl who wrote him a letter, innocently suggesting he grow a beard. Lincoln was journeying by train from Illinois to Washington, D.C. for his inauguration in 1861 as the nation’s 16th president when the train stopped in Westfield, and Lincoln asked if “the little girl” who had written him a letter was in…
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antrimreview.net broke the news in Bellaire, United States on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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