Another piece of my missing education was discovered today.
In 1865 a 6 year old Teddy Roosevelt and his brother Elliot (future father of Eleanor) watched Lincoln's funeral procession from the second story window of their grandfather Cornelius Roosevelt's house on Broadway between 13th and 14th Streets. Nine days after his death,Lincoln arrived in New York City on a ferry from Jersey City. The glass hearse,pulled by 16 horses,traveled from the ferry terminal down Broadway to City Hall where it remained for viewing until the next day.
That would have been the closest that Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln ever came to meeting,though Teddy knew Lincoln's son Robert well. Teddy invited Robert Lincoln to his inauguration in 1905,though Robert declined,having lived through his father's assassination,and being present at the assassination of both James Garfield and William McKinley,he did not wish to chance extending the streak of bad luck.
In 1865 a 6 year old Teddy Roosevelt and his brother Elliot (future father of Eleanor) watched Lincoln's funeral procession from the second story window of their grandfather Cornelius Roosevelt's house on Broadway between 13th and 14th Streets. Nine days after his death,Lincoln arrived in New York City on a ferry from Jersey City. The glass hearse,pulled by 16 horses,traveled from the ferry terminal down Broadway to City Hall where it remained for viewing until the next day.
That would have been the closest that Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln ever came to meeting,though Teddy knew Lincoln's son Robert well. Teddy invited Robert Lincoln to his inauguration in 1905,though Robert declined,having lived through his father's assassination,and being present at the assassination of both James Garfield and William McKinley,he did not wish to chance extending the streak of bad luck.
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