ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Manuscripts/ Audiovisual Collections ABRAHAM LINCOLN
PRESIDENTIAL COLLECTION Ca. 1860- 1970s OVERVIEW OF THE
COLLECTION Abraham Lincoln Presidential Collection ca. 1860-
1970s Black & White Photographs, Pamphlets, News clippings,
Ephemera 0.50 Cubic Feet Ohio Historical Society HISTORICAL
SKETCH OF THE COLLECTION Abraham Lincoln was President of the
United States from 1861 to 1865. On April 14, 1865, after the
American Civil War had ended, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln
while he watched a play in Ford’s Theater in Washington D. C.;
by the next day the President was dead. Shortly after his death
an enormous funeral procession began. Lincoln’s body began the
trip from Washington D. C. back to his hometown of Springfield,
Illinois on April 21, 1865. The funeral train generally followed
the route that Lincoln took when he traveled to Washington as
President elect in 1861. On Saturday, April 29, 1865 the train
traveled from Cleveland to Columbus arriving at 7: 3