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J of House Where Lincoln Died ABRAHAM LINCOLN in 1864 3 v Exterior HHSmdHGFBigl VBPB Z- eluding photograph George C O monument reared of mortal of the nation with their great resources - PP3ra2 Bradys famous jot R Ruff V Morris John -- -- T ¬ lib- ¬ E -- V J Lincoln which Is thp best Dudley H Semmes KellrJ sufficiently do hon- aided by many minds and hands and Vf - U considered John James hands could PKiXiSiV r w V--S- 3 Georgetown V- William P Ferguson from NO or to tho name of Abraham eral appropriations by Congress nor by - - - s Ei1i V likeness of him at the time Immediately Or llwws Henry Addison William H Tenner Lincoln The mans own works the members of an association banded preceding hia death pursuit Vvj from Washington countyrTOJJrflSfcn are his best memorials Nevertheless together with enthusiasm inthe V C5ni Tneiifncoln statue in front of the of their labors but by one man Thomas uty Hall was not many and Dr C H Nichols it is but fitting and graceful that In the - Kkv erected Oldroyd by name who has devoted a years after Lincolns death Certainly Unveiled by President Johnson Capital of the nation which he served so fljr 7 v XJ lifetime to tho work HPwHHk - no subject can more fittingly represent The monument was dedicated April 18 ¬ conspicuously there should be found mon After climbing the steps of the house the struggle and triumph of that terrible 18C3 in the presence of an Immense con- - Sr JlTif H 51G only distinguished from K uments and mementoes of the great Tenth Street v P- period which is now so forcibly recalled course of people the arrangements be ¬ MHH- xfr War President any modest three story dwelling by the ij SwMi kH - than the master mind and brave spirit ing in charge of Mayor Wallach As small sign In front Abraham Lincoln H Mwk K that while not participating by reason was by Hon B B French First in Interest perhaps as bringing H address made died In this house twenty two minutes -- feV of his office with tho soldiers on the bat- - E B a poem ¬ eye of and Olmstead read writ before the minds the personality past A vis- ¬ seven April 151865 the -- tltSelds felt for and watched over alL ten for the occasion The monument Lincoln is the museum on Tenth Street itor is admitted into a hallway leading d Qk This Lincoln statue was the work of flP lBlg-k hvJKflKfSrBii w was then unveiled by President AndreTTv ii -- located in a house opposite the old past the double parlors to the rear room Flannery Brothers sculptors of this Johnson 1 yALJ- - 1 - - jff Fords Theater building in which he was to which Lincoln was carried and where rM flVI city and was paid for by funds raised The bronze statue of Lincoln In Lln i ipsw from shot To this house he was borne on his death occurred The walls of this voluntary subscriptions by friends coin Park called Emancipation was hall are almost completely covered with and admirers of the martyr President designed by sculptor cast that deplorable occasion and here he vsaay Ball the and portraits of him at various periods of v h A Tho business part of the work connected in Munich Germany is unveiled breathed bis last v jv V If his life In steel engraving photograph X jo rfJT with tho erection of this monument was April 14 1S76 an anniversary of his as- ¬ The museum is a truly astonishing and lithograph and similar pictures of conducted by the Lincoln National Mon- ¬ sassination This monument Is the re aggregation of all those little memen- ¬ groups of which he is the central figure M- - fdST ument Association organized April 23 sult of the labors of the emancipated toes and reminders that were connected the collection comprising 2SS portraits xxjtrctxscp 1865 Tho president of this association citizens of the United States The first besides the groups xpiwSffKv3WpCT was Char- ¬ with his life in various stages and rfNB Richard Wallach vice president contribution was received from its KlvGjtNk r - aHsW -- y Joseph Brown S gave F secretaryCrosby lotte Scott an aged negress who with his tragic death That brilliant In the Front Parlor hi 1 1 vSSjjjp jyrhiyVr8if Noyes treasurer George W Rlggs her first 5 earned in freedom Freder life ending so strangely and sadly is Turning is gained llK to the left entrance There were fifty of whom un here brought before us as vividly as directors the ick Douglass was the orator at the to the room which was the front parlor following belonged In Washington Jo veiling exercises At every anniversary possible with the aid of inanimate ob- ¬ MR 0SB0RN H OLDROYD seph Lloyd B ¬ jects of the house where are some of tho F Brown Asbury John of Emancipation Day the colored inhab Turton Dr W G H Newman George of the city hold appropriate cere This collection seems the more wonder-¬ most Interesting nrticles in the museum itants H Plant Z Richards N D Larner E Lincoln Park and recall tho ful when we learn that was not made including a black locust rail split by monies at it C Carrington John P Pepper S J memory of him to whom they owe so at the instance of the powerful servants Abraham Lincoln in 1830 taken from Commenced as the Result of One Mans Love and Venera- ¬ Bowen Georgo F Gulick B B French much v tion for the Great Emancipator and Continued and Com- - 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a fence around his fathers house as ing writing and spelling to hl3 cousin plcted present at the time of Lincolns certified by John Hanks and attested by Abraham death is valuable because It presents PM Governor Oglesly in 1SC0 five years be- ¬ Inclosed In glass cases arc many excellent likenesses of the distinguished A Wife Wiffl zwM0vm gW2k Wimp fore the Presidents death also the flrR valuable relics including autograph Jo- ¬ persons who visited his bedsldp from which draped the theater box and in tters and cards of Abraham Lincoln tho the time he was- - brought here to the which the assassins spur caught as ho key of the prison in which the con- ¬ time of his death A more faithful Jumped a lock of lii tearing the ling and causing him spirators were incarcerated sketch of the deathbed scene is one that to fall to the 8tire In such manner as Mrs Lincolns hair original photo- ¬ was made by an artist in this room on to break his leg Tho rent made by the graphs of Mrs Lincoln and others in- ¬ the morning of tho Presidents death spur is plainly seen and the spur which cluding John Wilkes Booth a lock of from Information furnished by persons S piece of his crutch and - Ii iCfi 9 made it is hung against the wall near Booths hair a present at the moment of dissolution j n KssK- B r sJR 5Si ft mr the flag Thus are seen together the pieces of the burnt barn In which he nnd from photographs of all those tfien two articles which seem to have been was shot and of the porch on which ho Hi tWifii x Jm v - 15 fl p In the room giving the exact position ml W jfiOlk a 8p - LBpV li 4mmHPP b t ropes by which S Eltvi- vih employed by an unseen agency to brine died pieces of the the of each person as nearly as it could bo conspirators were hanged and many righteous retribution because if the as- ¬ fixed from memory valuable books belonging to the Lin- ¬ sassin Booth had not broken his leg it In the rear of the room which was A 11 coln family Including the family Bible Iffl af - - I a Is probable that he would have success- ¬ the sceno of the death of Lincoln is i fefA RWy e over 100 years old which Lincolns fully accomplished his escape the former servants room now the li- ¬ II if mother read to him when boy and vKV i brary which contains over one thousand iss i - mm0Mm Two Oil Paintings of Lincoln which on Its cover tho auto- ¬ xi w 1 yot bears volumes of biography of Lincoln and ip Hrt Lincoln written 1 Ey graph of ---Ml- Here are two oil paintings Lin- ¬ Abraham B iHBft of relating to civil war five hun ¬ 1 when lio ivns nine vears of ace looks the RV coln made in 1842 and 184C several dred newspapers and three hundred H 9kiK l Other Interesting mementoes too nu- ¬ 0l lPf groups of nrti- ¬ which ho was one Including merous to mention are In this front nnd twenty magazines containing tho President and his Cabinet Lincoln room Leaving it for tho back parlor cles relating to Lincolns Hfo and ii 1 five hundred studying at night by tho firelight in there are found In that apartment an death throe thousand his ¬ medley of in ¬ newspaper clipings hundreds of print- fathers cabin a corrected draft of the equally interesting relics - ¬ manuscript sermons delivered at cluding pictures of various kinds illus- ed and Hrai s0 famous Gettysburg I s- speech various re many HIHiSB BwSvBi - trating scenes connected with the as- ¬ the time of the funeral and books t a BB B IB vt i 3 coptlons at the White Houso includ- ¬ were per- ¬ BBSxIBbKwBBBBBBBJ sassination tho flight of Booth and and pamphlets that Lincolns 1 ing his last one scenes in Springfield 1BESIffl r Heroic and the arrest and trial of tho gonal property also touching original HWBHHpffilFKviM1WGKVtU3HKw --- 111 I Sllips8ynfY ITnTi l yw Including Oak Ridge Cemetery and conspirators letters addressed to or written by the p a the HK 3IMgnKIBBm Lincoln monument tho Globe Tav lii this room is also an original the beloved Pro3ident who was never too BgiTBfZ 8 f ern Lincoln WB where k Hm boarded when ho was titer bill of Fords Theater on tho night busy to show his lovo of tho countrys vcaran a BMnmBmBABBBBBBB11 Ty a brilliant and popular lawyer and of tho Thp play was then battling for tho preserva- ¬ assassination soldiers ssi IbSisS a 1 I I where his son Robert was born tho Our American Cousin in which as tion of the nation his pity for theh HBfftKSn 1 1 8 1 proclamation of --l-- -K freedom dated January presented nt Laura Kecnos Theater on auffcrlngsind his grief for their death BvPfc2Sw 1 1863 on ¬ scenes the night of the As- Broadway New York Joseph Jefferson BH Interesting Relics fKrHi sassination and photographs of places and E II Sothern were first brought 3 k r f at connected with tho history of the cap- ¬ most promlnontly before the public as Back of tho library Is a recent ad ¬ HB5S l5sil3 ture of Booth a largo photocranh of masters of the dramatic art tho former dition to tho building which contain the log cabin built by Lincoln and his and tho as as Asa Trenchard latter the cooking Btovo Inst used by the Lin ¬ H fathor In 1831 on Gooso Neck prairie Lord Dundreary Hero is also an origi- ¬ t coln family In the homectrad at Spring near Farmlngton 111 and one of an in- ¬ nal photograph of Lincoln visiting the srEKtfmMwSiM made from tho sill of the fiold a stand v terior of this cabin with headquarters of Gen Gcorgo B Mn Sjl u r It fr Jf the remain of ajf 4wMbHHHfly2lB J jJHf house In which Lincoln lived in 1834 nn old sjilnnlng wheel used by Lin- ¬ Clellan after the battle of Antietam W i i engraved thereon that woro art colns mother It was In this cabin with lines The Room Where Lincoln Died for by the poet Whittter a 4CV R v ts JAtr-sV- - - J that Lincolns father died In 1851 and written it of tho hall running walnut cradle in which tho Lincoln chil- ¬ 8f In which his mother onjbyed the realiza- ¬ At the rear the often by the hand of tion of her hopes of greatness for length of those two rooms is tho apart- ¬ dren were rocked her haircloth sofas and son as she lived here until Lincoln their father tltck after his ment in which Abraham dled Lincoln and by xk ctinirs bought by used election as President of the United preserved as was and which is it at the him to the time when he left Sprlng-- States and died here during his first except terra time of his death that tho bed nrld for Washington 1361 a what nn and other furniture and tho pictures made from a walnut bedstead presented Lincolns Journey to Springfield been removed in Springfield iSwTL JV sfii on the walls have and by Lincoln to a friend a Here are also pictures representing tho room converlod Into a gallery ot wheel from tho family carriage wooden Lincolns Journey from Springfield to pictures representing his death and dining room chairs a wooden settee on Washington prior to his inauguration scenes conrected with his life and a which ho rosted on his porch his office in 1861 a photograph of Dennis Hanks museum of relics in glass cases Among desk and his woodon omco chair in son of a brother of Lincolns mother tho pictures s a large crayon of the which ho sat when ho wrote his first Vancy T lf TTqII Hanks who was born May 15 deatli scene which although not his inaugural adaYeES Here cro also stat MikVlUinrntn UUilUCClnftia VtlUlb1fnrA -- Jf -- - 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