Edward Askew Sothern the play that Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated. Sothern's role was Lord Dundreary, a caricature of a brainless English nobleman. At first, he was reluctant to accept the role; it was so small and unimportant that he felt it beneath him and feared it might damage his reputation. He mentioned his qualms to his friend, Joseph Jefferson, who had been cast in the leading role of Asa Trenchard in the play. Jefferson supposedly responded with the famous line: "There are no small parts, only small actors." On 15 October 1858, "Our American Cousin" premiered in New York.
Abraham Lincoln Keister twenty-eight years. He organized the Scottdale Savings & Trust Co. in 1901, with which he was connected until the time of his death. He was a member of the Scottdale Board of Education for more than twenty years. Keister was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1916. He resumed his former business pursuits until he died at his home in Scottdale. Interment in Scottdale Cemetery. Abraham Lincoln Keister Abraham Lincoln Keister (September 10, 1852 – May 26, 1917) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives