714768 The Funeral Catafalque at Springfield, Illinois, illustration for \'Frank Leslie\'s Illustrated Newspaper\', 1865 (pencil, ink & wash on paper) by American School, (19th century); 24.4x33 cm; Collection of the New-York Historical Society, USA; (add.info.: Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 ??April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln successfully led the United States through one of its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crises?he American Civil War?reserving the Union. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.); 穢 New York Historical Society ; Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund; American, out of copyright.