The statue “Young Abe Lincoln on Horseback,” was gifted to Syracuse University in 1973 by creator Anna Hyatt Huntington. She produced the piece in bronze in 1963 when she was 87 years old.
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in ...
The southern widow's Maryland house was a crucial stop on the escape route for assassin John Wilkes Booth the night he shot the president. Read more about Abraham ...