. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln . Several authentic mementos of therailroad cars destruction survived. TheLincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois,owns a piece of wood from the article in the Minneapolis Star inMarch 1964 related that Maury Ostran-der, then an associate professor at theUniversity of Minnesota, had been asmall boy at the time of the fire. He wasstill wearing a tie clasp he had madefrom a piece of window molding recov- ered from the ruin of the funeral car. Nodoubt dozens of other relics of the carare still kept in Minnesota homes,though few of the roughly two millio
. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln . Several authentic mementos of therailroad cars destruction survived. TheLincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois,owns a piece of wood from the article in the Minneapolis Star inMarch 1964 related that Maury Ostran-der, then an associate professor at theUniversity of Minnesota, had been asmall boy at the time of the fire. He wasstill wearing a tie clasp he had madefrom a piece of window molding recov- ered from the ruin of the funeral car. Nodoubt dozens of other relics of the carare still kept in Minnesota homes,though few of the roughly two millioncurrent Twin Cities-area residents arefamiliar with the history and fate of theLincoln car. Tom Lowrys name, on the otherhand, is still familiar there. A street inMinneapolis bears his name, and a stat-ue of Lowry was dedicated in 1915. In-. Dr. Wayne Wesolowski and the Vi2-scale model of the car, theconstruction of which he has overseen on behalf of Illinois BenedictineCollege. The college is seeking funds to send an exhibit, including thismodel, on tour to the cities the original car visited. terstate Route 94 now runsunder the hill where his finalhouse sat; this stretch ofhighway is called the LowryHill Tunnel. A lifelong ad-mirer of Lincoln, Lowrywrote his own book of mem-ories of the 16th president,which was published afterthe developers death. If Lowrys beloved sou-venir has been forgotten, itwill not long remain so. Illi-nois Benedictine College inLisle, Illinois, has undertakena project sure to return theLincoln funeral train to the at-tention of historically mindedAmericans. Dr. Wayne Weso-lowski, a chemistry professorat the college and an avid rail-road modeler, is overseeingan effort to build a Vi2-scalemodel of the funeral train tocommemorate the 130th an-niversary of the funeral thisspring. Included in the mo
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