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In 1837, Lincoln moved to Springfield from New Salem at the start of his law career. He met his wife, Mary Todd, at her sister's home in Springfield and married there in 1842. The historic-site house at 413 South Eighth Street at the corner of Jackson Street, bought by Lincoln and his wife in 1844, was the only home that Lincoln ever owned.
The Lincoln Tomb is the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States; his wife Mary Todd Lincoln; and three of their four sons: Edward, William, and Thomas. It is located in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois .
Lincoln's funeral train, the Old Nashville, departing Washington, D.C. for Springfield, Illinois; it stopped in eleven other cities along the way. Lincoln's house in Springfield, Illinois, draped in mourning with his horse "Old Bob" in front in 1865. At 7 a.m. on Friday, April 21, the Lincoln coffin was taken by honor guard to the depot.
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum at Springfield, Illinois. The museum contains life-size dioramas of Lincoln's boyhood home, [2] areas of the White House, the presidential box at Ford's Theatre, and the settings of key events in Lincoln's life, as well as pictures, artifacts and other memorabilia. [3]
President Abraham Lincoln Home: 413 S 8th St 1839 August 18, 1971 Claus Grocery Store 1700 S 11th St 1905 Constant & Groves Chevrolet Building 425 S 4th St Adams House 2315 Clear Lake Ave Allen Miller House 511 S 8th St Bell Miller Apartments 835 S 6th St Booth-Grunendike Mansion 500 S 6th St c. 1870 Second Empire Bunn-Sankey House 1001 S 6th St
The House Divided Speech was an address given by senatorial candidate and future president of the United States Abraham Lincoln, on June 16, 1858, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, after he had accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination as that state's US senator. The nomination of Lincoln was the final item ...
Abraham Lincoln's Springfield home in 1865 during Lincoln's funeral. Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Springfield area in 1831 when he was a young man, but he did not live in the city until 1837. [16] He spent the ensuing six years in New Salem, where he began his legal studies, joined the state militia, and was elected to the Illinois General ...
Oak Ridge Cemetery is an American cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. The Lincoln Tomb, where Abraham Lincoln, his wife and all but one of their children lie, is here, as are the graves of other prominent Illinois figures. Opened in 1860, it was the third and is now the only public cemetery in Springfield, after the City Cemetery and Hutchinson ...