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 LINCOLN

LINCOLN

FORD'S THEATREl.

Petersburg and Richmond were evacuated by General Lee, who surrendered his army to Gen- eral Grant at Appomattox court house, Va., April 9, 1865. The President visited General Grant at his headquarters at City Point and en- tered Richmond shortly after the evacuation.

On April 11, 18- 65, Washington was illuminated in honor of the surrender of Lee, and on the even- ing of April 14, 1S65, the Presi- dent, Mrs. Lin- coln, Miss Clara Harris and Ma- jor Rathbone oc- cupied a box at Ford's Theatre, Washington, to witness the play •' Our Ameri- can Cousin." At 10.30 in the evening an ob- scure actor, entered the President's box from the rear of the stage and holding a pistol to the President's head, fired. The President fell for- ward unconscious, and in the confusion which followed the assassin leaped upon the stage but broke his leg in the leap, his spur being entangled in the American flag that draped the box. The President was carried to a house opposite the theatre where, on the morning of April 15, 1865, he died. On April 19, 1865, the funeral took place at the White House. The body was laid in state at the White House, and was there viewed by a great number of people. It was guarded by a company of high officers of the army and navy. The assassin of the President was found in a barn by a squadron of troops April 27, 1865, and was shot by a soldier before the officer could demand his surrender. The remains of the President lay in state in Baltimore, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago; and at each place immense funeral processions marched through the streets and the whole country was in mourning. The funeral car reached Springfield, 111., having travelled a distance of nearh* 2000 miles, and the body was buried in Oak Ridge cemetery. May 4, 1865. A monument of white marble marks the spot. Numerous statues of Lincoln adorn the public places of most of the larger cities of the United States. Henry Kirke Brcwn executed the one in Union Square, New York city, and that in Brooklyn; Thomas Ball's Emancipation group appears in Lincoln Park,

Washington, D.C.. and in Park Square, Boston; a statue by Mrs. Yinnie Ream Hoxie is in Statuary Hall in the national capitol, one by Augustus St. Gaudens in Chicago, and one by Randolpli Rogers in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. The honorary de- gree of LL.D. was conferred on Mr. Lincoln by Columbia in 1861, and by the College of New Jersey in 1864. Portraits in oil were painted from life by Al- ban J. Conant, Frank B. Car- penter. Mat- thew AVilson. Thomas Hicks, and William E. Marshall. Mr. Carpenter also painted "The house i" wh.cm i_jncoi.a( die-p-

Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation ''and wrote: " Six Months in the White House." After his death, Healy, Page and many other painters produced excellent portraits after his numerous photographs. A large collection of his photographs was reproduced in McClures Magazine with an illustrated " Life " and '■Early Life of Abraham Lincoln." by Ida M. Tarbell (1895-96); and Volk and Mills took life masks from which they executed busts. Mr. Lincoln's "Speech at Cooper Union, Feb. 27, 1860," was issued in pamphlet form and widely circulated, and selections from his speeches and messages were published in 1865. Joseph H. Barrett, J. G. Holland, W. M. Thayer, B. F. Morris, Henry J. Raymond, Ward H. Lamon, W. O. Stoddard, Isaac N. Arnold, Harr-et Beecher Stowe, D. W. Bartlett. Charles G. Leland, J. C. Power, Nicolay and Hay, John T. Morse, Carl Schurz, William D. Howells, Ida M. Tarbell are the more prominent of his numerous biographers. In the selection of names for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York uni- versity, made in 1900, his was one of the thirty- seven names in " Class M, Rulers and States- men," and received a place, having ninety-six votes, equalling the votes given to Daniel Webster and exceeded onl^- b\' the ninety seven vote.s given to George Washington. President Lincoln died in Washington. D.C., April 15. 1S65.

LINCOLN, Benjamin, soldier, was born in Hingham, Mass., Jan. 24, 1733, sou of Col, Benjamin Lincoln, and a descendant of Thomas Lincoln, one of the first settlers of Hingham.