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Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln, made by L. Clark Mills and Theodore A. Mills, 

 sixty days before the assassination of the President. Cane used by President Lincoln. 



citizens of the State of Allegheny ' for the splendid majority they had 

 rolled up for him. He used the cane while in Washington on his 

 walks to and fro between the White House and the War Department, 

 and broke the ferrule which was on it. Not very long before his death, 

 Mr. Magee, the father of the late Christopher L. Magee, who was an 

 old time abolitionist, called upon President Lincoln, and President 

 Ivincoln in conversation with him recalled his visit to Pittsburgh, and 

 stepping to a corner of the room, produced the cane. After fondling 

 it for awhile in his hands he said to Mr. Magee, ' You have sons, have 

 you?' Mr. Magee replied, 'I have.' President Lincoln answered, 

 * Well, then, take this cane back to the State of Allegheny. Keep it, 

 and hand it down to your sons.' The cane at the death of Mr. Magee 

 was given by his wife to the late Hon. Christopher Lyman Magee, who 

 in turn gave it to his sister, Mrs. John Fremont Steele, who last Sun- 

 day with great kindness placed it in the custody of the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum as a loan, to be preserved here subject to her disposition." 



