Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — He Could Fit Lincoln's Feet. [ARTICLE]

He Could Fit Lincoln's Feet.

A shoemaker who died at Scandara, Pa., not long ; go. started a fortune from making shoes for President Lincoln. The president hid large, ungainly feet, and all he wanted was to have easy shoes. He could not get shoemakers to make his shoes Urge enough. Soon after he was elected in 1860 ,Peter Kahler, a Scranton (Pa.) shoemaker, obtained a i outline drawing pt one of the president's feet, and sent him a pair of shdes that suited him exactly. Lincoln wrote a letter of thanks to Mr. Kahler, which he was shrewd ehough to have published. It brought him fame and he removed to New York, bee-me a “doctor,” a chiropodist, and a specialist. Carriage (wonle patronized him-nnd he accunralated’u considerable fortune. Lincoln continued to buy shoes of Kahler to the time of his death.—New York Sun. * • *