. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. 7 and 1859. Up to that time theSenate Chamber was the present Supreme Court Room,and the Hall of Representatives was the presentNational Statuary Hall. The dome was finished duringthe administration of President Lincoln. The total costof the Capitol building and grounds was about thirtymillion dollars. The remains of President Lincoln wereescorted from the White House to the Capitol at threeoclock P. M., on the 19th of April, 1865. The numberin the procession was estimated at forty thousand, andthat many more were spectators a
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. 7 and 1859. Up to that time theSenate Chamber was the present Supreme Court Room,and the Hall of Representatives was the presentNational Statuary Hall. The dome was finished duringthe administration of President Lincoln. The total costof the Capitol building and grounds was about thirtymillion dollars. The remains of President Lincoln wereescorted from the White House to the Capitol at threeoclock P. M., on the 19th of April, 1865. The numberin the procession was estimated at forty thousand, andthat many more were spectators along the route. Theburial service was conducted by Dr. Gurley. The spe-cial train bearing the remains left at 8 A. M., Friday,April 21, for Springfield, Illinois, stopping at Baltimore,Maryland; Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;Albany and Buffalo, New York; Cleveland and Colum-bus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois,reaching Springfield, Illinois, the 3d of May, and wasburied the following day. The body lay in state inall of the above *7 74 THE POETS LINCOLN EDWIN MARKHAM, born at Oregon City, Oregon,April 23, 1852; settled in California in 1857, andworked there during his boyhood, principally as ablacksmith. Worked his way through the San JoseNormal School and Santa Rosa College. Became awriter of stories and verse for papers and magazines,and principal and superintendent of California the author of The Man With the Hoe, and OtherPoems (1899); The Man With the Hoe, with Notesby the Author (1900); The End of the Century (1899);Lincoln, the Great Commoner (1900); The MightyHundred Years; Lincoln and Other Poems (1901); TheShoes of Happiness (1915). His Man With the Hoewas extensively republished and gave him wide fame. LINCOLN THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE WHEN the Norn-Mother saw the WhirlwindHour,Greatening and darkening as it hurried on,She bent the strenuous Heavens and came downTo make a man to meet the mortal took the tried clay o
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