Historical Reflections

Cook County News Herald Archives February 6, 1930

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. Reflecting on the martyrdom of Abraham Lincoln at the time of his death in April 1865, poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote that if George Washington was the father of our country, then Lincoln was its savior. Lincoln’s assassination occurred on Good Friday; he died early the next day. The above illustration was run on the front page of the February 6, 1930, Cook County News Herald, only 65 years after Lincoln’s death. People who had survived the Civil War were still alive.