There are a lot of fun facts about Abraham Lincoln that go beyond ... for Lincoln's tender-hearted son to fall in love with this wild bird, which resulted in Tad naming him Jack.

HOW ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS SAVED BY HIS SON TAD — AND GAVE US 'A HOLIDAY TRADITION' TO REMEMBER Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, ...

His youngest son, Tad Lincoln, died in 1871. Lincoln suffered from “melancholia,” the nineteenth-century term for clinical depression. He would enter such bouts that would last for weeks on end.