Letter: Washington, [D.C.], to A[ndrew] Boyd, 1870 Jan. 11.

Harrington, George, -1892

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George Harrington (1815-1892), Treasury official and diplomat. Harrington served as a clerk in the Treasury Department before being appointed chief clerk under his personal friend Salmon P. Chase. During the Civil War, he served as assistant secretary of the treasury. He was Grand Marhsall at the funeral of President Lincoln. In 1865-1869 he served as minister-resident to Switzerland, and in 1870-1876 he was president of Automatic Telegraph Co., New York. From the description of Pape...

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...

Boyd, Andrew, 1836-1905.

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