Monday, March 9th, 2009
Student of history
The PBS show American Experience was Lincoln and I was remembering an event in Shawnee about 1947 when I was in OBU.
I was doing some trimming for Sidney Clark who owned a furniture store. He said that he had something that might interest me.
He had a piece of parchment that he explained that his father had kept as a souvenir from when he was a US senator from Kansas, and the paper was a spoiled copy of the impeachment of Pres. Andrew Johnson that was spoiled by having some signatures more than once, so of course they had to start over and he got the keepsake. Senator Clark was one of the honor guards who rode the train with Lincoln's body to Springfield Ill.
When I was in Oklahoma history the prof had mentioned some rare books in the library, so when I went there I was having trouble finding something and when I told one of the assistant librarians what I had seen, he went all out to help me find things. My thought was that he was hoping that he might get his hands on that document. NJR
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