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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Oak Ridge Cemetery (Springfield, Ill.) Exhumation Tombs
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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mM<-m^tbik&ititmiA Rohffi Kir TEMPORARY INTERMENT OF LINCOLN BODIES IN 1900— While the Lincoln Monument was under reconstruction at this time, the bodies of Mr.Lincoln and his family were given temporary interment in a vault a short distancenortheast of the Monument. On this occasion, March 10, 1900, a group of prominentcitizens gathered for the simple rites. The gentleman in left foreground with hatin hand is General Alfred Orendorff, while at right, with hand to his face, is Hon.Ben F. Caldwell, then Congressman from this district. One of those in group in rightforeground is Hon. H. W. Clendenin, editor of the Illinois State Register, facingGeneral Orendorff.
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(Photograph courtesy of State Historical Library) MOVING LINCOLN CASKET FROM sepulcher room AT TOMB IN 1901— This interesting old photograph, from Guy Mathis pictorial record of the moving ofthe remains of Abraham Lincolnin connection with the Tomb remodeling of 1901hows workmen returning the casket, enclosed in its cedar case, to the sepulch«r• - *. -H *- identi- g««EJp— gg«-S^^ colored man whose name has been sought foryears. Perhaps someone in his family or anacquaintance of his may come forward with this room in the nortn part.of the Tomb, after Identi-fication of the body in Memorial Hall. It isthought that the only survivor of this crew ofworkmen is John W. Whitney of 1103 S. 16thStreet—who identifies the men as follows. Her-man Gaa, John M. Long, George Seroggins JohnP Thompson and—at extreme right—John W.Whitney. Any further information in thisregard will be appreciated. Reminiscing of theevent, Mr. Whitney said that when the casketwas carried into Memorial Hal

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