Letter, January 25, 1866.

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Letter, January 25, 1866.

Letter written from Venice, Italy, to Vermont senator Solomon Foot, sending a photo of Mead's tomb design (not included), and urging Foot to lobby members of Congress to approve the design and thus pressure the committee to choose it.

3 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7997561

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Foot, Solomon, 1802-1866

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Member of United States Senate. From the description of Autograph letter signed : House of Representatives, 1845 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270520495 Lawyer, state legislator, U.S. Representative and later Senator; b. in Cornwall, Vt.; attended Middlebury College; admitted to the bar in 1831 and practiced in Rutland, Vt.; elected state representative, 1833, 1836-1838; delegate to the Vermont state constitutional convention, 1836; prosecuting attorney, 1836-1842;...

Mead, Larkin G. (Larkin Goldsmith), 1835-1910

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Mead, a Vermont sculptor, won the 1868 design competition for the Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. From the description of Letter, January 25, 1866. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 695996415 Larkin G. Mead, a Vermont sculptor, won an 1868 design competition sponsored by the National Lincoln Monument Association and his design for the tomb became the first major Lincoln commemorative project to be completed. Justin Smith M...

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...