The Lincoln Descendants

Abraham Lincoln • 1809 - 1865 • age 56

Mary Todd Lincoln • 1818 - 1882 • age 63

Lincoln children

Robert Todd • 1843 - 1926 • age 82

Edward Baker • 1846 - 1850 • age 3 (consumption)

William Wallace • 1850 - ...

Lincoln School and Village

In 1918 William Lincoln Barrell of Lowell MA. purchased Abingdon Mill and transformed it into a large textile center of all concrete construction named Lincoln Mill Village. Phillip Peeler served as its superintendent from 1934-1953.

Built in 1929 this school became ...

National Historic Landmark - Lincoln Tomb

Has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic sites Act of August 31, 1935

This site possesses exceptional value

om commemorating and illustrating

the history of the United States

U.S.Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1964

Building the Lincoln Tomb

On April 24, 1865, several associates of Abraham Lincoln formed the National Lincoln Monument Association to raise funds for and build a fitting memorial over the president's grave. An 1868 competition chose the monument design of sculptor Larking G. Mead, ...

The Grave of Abraham Lincoln

This structure marks the graves of Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary, and three of their four children. Members of the Lincoln family chose the site in May 1865. Planned and built in the years following the president's shocking death, the ...

Lincoln's Last Law Office

Lincoln and Herndon rented law offices at several locations over the years. Their last was a rear room on the second floor in a building that stood here. Leslie's Weekly published this drawing of the office interior during the 1860 ...

Lincoln's Hat

Lincoln reportedly has a "very defective taste" in hats. At various times he was known to have worn fur caps, straw or palm hats, and broad, low-brimmed wool or felt hats. He is best known for the "plug" or stovepipe ...

Mary Lincoln's Ring

"Love is Eternal" were the words engraved in the plain gold band that Abraham Lincoln slipped on Mary's finger at their wedding in Springfield on November 4, 1842. The inscription reflected the ideal of "romantic love" that swept America in ...

Lincoln Assassination Trial

On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth (of Maryland) assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theater in downtown Washington. Booth's conspirators were arrested and tried by a Military Court here in Building 20 from May 9 to June 30, 1865. ...

Citizenry Mourn Lincoln

[Left Section]

When word of President Lincoln’s assassination came, most of Pontiac’s male population had not yet returned from the Civil War. But their wives and children remained, and when word was received that the special train bearing his body ...