What Would Honest Abe Say?
July 24, 2019 4:11pm |
By Carolina Carneiro, Summer Times Staff Writer
For more than a century, Exonians have been confidently boasting that there town was where Amos Tuck, a 19th century politician, founded the Republican Party. However, a longtime curator of the Exeter Historical Society, Barbara Rimkunas, and volunteer researcher, Mark Willis, have discovered evidence proving that the Republican Party may have not originated in Exeter.
These doubts stem from the lack of evidence to prove Tuck’s and …