Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States mb-code 1619761 Workers busy producing wheel rims

Workers busy producing wheel rims for motor vehicles

View looking across the churchyard

The fire at the City Flour Mills

Monument of Sir Paul Heneage in old St Paul's Cathedral

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States mb-code 1619761 Workers busy producing wheel rimsAbraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, 1860s. Lincoln (1809 1865) joined the Republican party in 1858 and was elected president two years later. In 1863, he proclaimed the emancipation of all slaves in the southern Confederate states and later that year restated his anti slavery views in the Gettysburg Address. During his 1864 campaign for re election, he embraced the abolition of slavery. He was infamously shot by actor John Wilkes