"Now He Belongs
To The Ages"

E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865
Hartford , CT: E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, 1865.
Lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division (49.8)
Digital ID# ppmsca-07755

Unconscious, Lincoln was carried from Ford's Theatre to the nearby house of Williams Peterson at 453 10th Street. There, in a room rented to William Clark, a boarder, Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m., April 15, 1865. The artist's conception of the deathbed scene is shown here with the dying President surrounded by his family, members of the Cabinet, (excluding Seward, who had been seriously stabbed in an assassination attempt the same night), officers, and physicians. When Lincoln died Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton is reported to have uttered his famous remark, "Now he belongs to the ages."