In this week’s installment of our ongoing series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, a veteran-athlete is killed, Abraham Lincoln writes a thank you note, and more.
December 21, 1918—With orders home in his pocket, celebrated athlete Hobey Baker ’14 crashes in France while testing a repaired plane, sustaining fatal injuries.
Hobey Baker’s crashed plane. John D. Davies Collection on Hobey Baker (AC005), Box 5, Folder 7, Image No. 21828.