The nation mourns! : Solemn funeral ceremonies in honor of our beloved President will be held in Elgin, Wednesday, April 19, at 12 o'clock M. ... / by order of J.S. Wilcox, A.B. Fish, Jas. Knott, Committee of arran[gements], Elgin, April 17th, 1865

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The nation mourns! : Solemn funeral ceremonies in honor of our beloved President will be held in Elgin, Wednesday, April 19, at 12 o'clock M. ... / by order of J.S. Wilcox, A.B. Fish, Jas. Knott, Committee of arran[gements], Elgin, April 17th, 1865

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This broadside, measuring 63.5 x 46.5 cm., advertises a funeral ceremony in honor of assassinated president Abraham Lincoln, to be held in Elgin, Illinois, on April 19, 1865. It details the route of the procession, the order of local official participants in the procession, and the order of service for the ceremony to be held in the Academy Hall.

0.3 linear feet (1 oversize folder)

eng,

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6658260

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

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Gazette Print (Elgin, Ill.), printer.

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