Benjamin Brown French
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Benjamin Brown French was an American politician, telegraph business leader, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Public Commissioner of Buildings in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the
French's wife, Elizabeth Richardson French
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederacy and p
Lincoln in 1863
Mary Todd Lincoln with Willie and Tad
Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois, where he resided from 1844 until becoming president in 1861
A daguerreotype of Lincoln, taken around 1847, the earliest known photograph of him