Identifier: portraitgallery02duyc (find matches)
Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878
Subjects: Biography, Portraits Biography Portraits
Publisher: New York : Johnson, Fry and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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ind ofthe nation a feeling of horror and jiity,which was witnessed in the firmestresolves and teuderest sense of com-miseration. All parties throughoutthe loyal States united in demonstra-tions of resjject and affection.Acts of mourning were spontaneousand universal. Business was every-where suspended, while the people as-sembled to express their admirationand love of the President so foullyslain, and to devote themselves anewto the cause—their own cause—forthe assertion of which he had beenstricken down. When the funeraltook place, the long jjrocession, as ittook its way from Washington throughPennsylvania, New York, Ohio andIndiana, to the Presidents home inIllinois, was attended, at every step,with unju-ecedented funeral honors;orations were delivered in the largecities, crowds of mourners by nightand day witnessed the solemn passageof the train on the long lines of rail-way ; a half million of persons it wasestimated, looked upon the face oftheir departed President and friend.
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fflcuuSU ^^OXOm^T m^mh FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD. THIS gentle American poet, whosedelicacy and susceptibility arereflected in a peculiar manner in all thatshe wrote, giving promise of still high-er excellence, had her life been pro-longed, was born in Boston, Massachu-setts, in the year 1812. She was thedaughter of Joseph Locke, a merchantof that city, and a gentleman of educa-tion. A taste for literary compositionseems to have been a natural gift inthe family, for several of its memberswere successful wiiters. Anna MariaFoster, the daughter of Mrs. Locke byher first husband, who was married toMr. Thomas Wells, an officer of theUnited States revenue service, pub-lished a volume of poems in 1831. Ayounger sister of Mrs. Osgood, andher brother, Mr. A. A. Locke, wrotefor the magazines. The childhood ofFrances was chiefly passed in the vill-age of Hingham, a locality peculiarlyadapted by its beautiful situation fora poetic culture, which soon developeditself in her youthful mind. She wasenco

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