Assassination of Abraham Lincoln jury could not reach a verdict and John Surratt was released. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 a.m., in the Petersen House opposite the theater. He was the first American president to be assassinated, and Lincoln's funeral and burial marked an extended period of national mourning. Occurring near the end of
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