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1 day ago · Lincoln's older son Robert Todd Lincoln arrived at about 11 pm, but twelve-year-old Tad Lincoln, who was watching a play of Aladdin at Grover's Theater when he learned of his father's assassination, was kept away.
1 day ago · Lincoln was an affectionate husband and father of four sons, though his work regularly kept him away from home. The eldest, Robert Todd Lincoln, was born in 1843, and was the only child to live to maturity. Edward Baker Lincoln (Eddie), born in 1846, died February 1, 1850, probably of tuberculosis.
4 days ago · Secretary of War Edwin Stanton is reported to have said, “Now he belongs to the ages.”. A lock of Lincoln’s hair was cut at the request of his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. Upon Lincoln’s death, his son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was given the contents of the president’s pockets.
2 days ago · The Pullman Company, no longer in the landlord business, returned to success under the leadership of its second president, Robert Todd Lincoln. Union activity returned to Pullman, and just ten years after the explosive strike, in 1904 the company locked out union workers, defeating them easily and without larger incident.
4 days ago · Jeff Wallenfeldt. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.
- The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, took place at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of...
- Abraham Lincoln was attending a performance of the comedy, Our American Cousin, at Ford’s Theatre, when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth in the bac...
- John Wilkes Booth, a member of one of the United States’ most distinguished acting families of the 19th century, was the assassin who killed U.S. P...
- John Wilkes Booth and his fellow conspirators planned to assassinate not just President Abraham Lincoln but also Vice President Andrew Johnson and...
- Eight conspirators were tried by a military commission for Abraham Lincoln’s murder. David Herold, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt...
Robert Todd Lincoln always had a fear of being around Presidents, as he believed it was a sign they would die He was in Washington when his father was shot, with James Garfield when he was shot (as Secretary of War), a block or two away from the Temple of Music when William McKinley was shot, and just a year later Warren Harding died of cardiac arrest (I believe some think it an aneurysm; we ...
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2 days ago · On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen (roo-AHN’), France. On this date: In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln. In 1935, Babe Ruth played in his last major ...
