Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birthdays. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90 (first surgeon to reach Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth...
...brother Surgeon Charles S. Taft was the first surgeon to reach Lincoln after Booth shot him. Col. Osborne Oldroyd in his book The Assassination of Lincoln, which is authentic, tells of Surgeon Taft being the first surgeon to reach Lincoln and he says Surgeon Taft had charge of the case until the arrival of the Lincoln's private physician and the Surgeon-General...
...Surgeon-General ordered Surgeon Taft to report to the artist for the official picture of the Deathbed of Lincoln. That picture may be seen in the house on Tenth Street where Lincoln died, in the museum of Lincoln relics, formerly kept by Col. Oldroyd. In the picture my brother is shown standing at the head of the bed with his hands on Lincoln's head. I have seen some incorrect pictures of the Deathbed, but this is the authentic...
...remember a man told a reporter once that he was the first one by Lincoln. This Dr. Leale may have been one of those asked by my brother to assist in carrying Lincoln from the theatre across the street to the house where he later died...
Harvard-Stroke, Nichols; 7, Lincoln; 6, Lembard; 5, Stevens; 4, Fox; 3, Filstrup; 2, Pearson; Bow, Phillips; Cox, Tarplin...