Show old rocker distinctly an american invention there Is one style of chair that Is thoroughly american the rocker ass asserts erts a writer in the cleveland plain dealer for a long time furniture men credited L benjamin franklin with having invented it until some one dug up a bill for re bottoming a rocking chair thirteen years prior to the existence of the franklin chair the rocker was introduced in europe from the united states in 1840 1340 curiously enough rockers were quite th the thing ng in th theater e boxes x e s 7 75 eo in abo 12 years a ago L lincoln in ol 01 n was seated te d in a rocker the night he was assassinated at fords theater the stylo style of rocker was therefore cop led and known as the lincoln rocker while the rocker hag gone on out ot of style more or less the colonial rocker Is still being manufactured |