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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 19. (search)
children who, scarce realizing the impressiveness of the scene, were destined to live and tell their children yet to be born the sad story of Lincoln's death. At ten o'clock in the morning of the second day, as a choir of two-hundred-and-fifty voices sang Peace, troubled soul, the lid of the casket was shut down forever. The remains were borne outside and placed in a hearse, which moved at the head of a procession in charge of General Joseph Hooker to Oak Ridge Cemetery. There Bishop Matthew Simpson delivered an eloquent and impressive funeral oration, and Rev. Dr. Gurley, of Washington, offered up the closing prayer. While the choir chanted Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb, the vault door opened and received to its final rest all that was mortal of Abraham Lincoln. It was soon known that the murder of Lincoln was one result of a conspiracy which had for its victims Secretary Seward and probably Vice-President. Johnson, Secretary Stanton, General Grant, and perhaps others.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 (search)
Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
ganized.] Aaron Burr's expedition to Southwestern Territory......1805 Portsmouth, Scioto county, settled.1805 Indians cede to the United States the tract known as the Connecticut Reserve; treaty concluded at Fort Industry......July 4, 1805 State legislature orders the seizure of the boats building on the Muskingum for the Aaron Burr expedition ......Dec. 2, 1806 State capital removed from Chillicothe to Zanesville......1810 Population of the State, 230,760......1810 Matthew Simpson, bishop Methodist Episcopal Church, born Cadiz......June 21, 1810 First steamboat on the Ohio, the New Orleans, 400 tons, built at Pittsburg, descends the Ohio to New Orleans in fourteen days......1811 War with England declared; three regiments raised in Ohio......1812 Columbus laid out......1812 Col. Israel Putnam, one of the pioneers of the State, and a son of Gen. Israel Putnam, dies at Belpre......1812 Solomon Spaulding writes a work of fiction, The manuscript found,
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 6: end of the Liberator.—1865. (search)
upon the questions of the day and the importance of negro suffrage. A fortnight later Mr. Oct. 11. Garrison was in Philadelphia, on business connected with the American Freedman's Aid Commission, an organization comprising the principal Freedmen's Educational and Aid Associations in the East and West, which had hitherto been working independently of each other, but were now brought into harmonious operation through the Lib. 35.170. efforts of J. M. McKim. Of this new organization Bishop Matthew Simpson was made President, and Mr. Garrison First Vice-President, Mr. McKim being the Corresponding Secretary of the Eastern Department. Its object was to promote the education and elevation of the Freedmen, and to cooperate to this end with the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, which had been established early in the year by Congress, with General O. O. Howard as Chief Commissioner. Later in the month Mr. Garrison and Mr. McKim visited Maine in behalf of the Commission