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The Assassination of

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's Death Certificate

Excerpts from newspapers and other

sources

From the files of the

Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

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\r7 East diestnut, Street

Cliioago, Illinois 60611

Dear Mark,

Your right, there wasn't a Lincoln

death certificate, but the enclosed

evidently served as same for the

estate

.

The original is in Springfield.

Ralph Gr. Newman Ent:e:r,f:r.ish3S, Inc.

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AFFIDAVIT OF DKOEASF. AM) NAMKS OF MKIilS. (ieo. It. Wkiikb, Job l'rintcr.

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