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RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 05-28-2015
On July 20, 1865, an American publication printed this about Mary Surratt. What was the name of the publication?
"The execution of the four criminals took place at Washington, on the 7th of July. The persons executed were Mrs. Surratt, Lewis Payne, David Harold, and George Atzerott. These persons were all associates and tools of the murderer Booth, by whose hand President Lincoln fell. Mrs. Surratt was even more guilty than the three men who were hanged with her, as she was of mature years, and had the ability to understand the peculiar wickedness of the abominable crime that was plotted. The plotters used to meet at her house, and there they held their consultations, and formed their plans, to all of which she seems to have been a willing and a useful party, her own son being one of the conspirators. Had she told the authorities of what was going on, all bloodshed and executions would have been avoided, and President Lincoln would, no doubt, have been alive at this moment. Her miserable end was the natural end to her miserable conduct."
RE: Assassination Trivia - Rogerm - 05-28-2015
Was it "The Atlantic Monthly?"
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 05-28-2015
Roger, that's an excellent guess, but not correct.
Hint #1: This was a family publication read by both children and adults.
RE: Assassination Trivia - ReignetteC - 05-28-2015
The Youth's Companion
(I have a few of them that I found on eBay; love the magazine.)
RE: Assassination Trivia - GARY POPOLO - 05-28-2015
(05-28-2015, 10:20 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Roger, that's an excellent guess, but not correct.
Hint #1: This was a family publication read by both children and adults.
I am going out on a limb here but how about The Philadelphia Enquire.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 05-28-2015
Brilliant, Reignette! Indeed it was the weekly Youth's Companion, based in Boston.
Here's an example of the top banner from the paper in 1853:
![[Image: banneryouth.jpg]](http://rogerjnorton.com/banneryouth.jpg)
The words in the question came from this page:
http://www.merrycoz.org/yc/EXE.xhtml
Wikipedia has an article on the Youth's Companion here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Youth%27s_Companion
Kudos, Reignette, you win a free lifetime subscription to the Youth's Companion.
RE: Assassination Trivia - ReignetteC - 05-28-2015
(05-28-2015, 03:53 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Brilliant, Reignette! Indeed it was the weekly Youth's Companion, based in Boston.
Here's an example of the top banner from the paper in 1853:
The words in the question came from this page:
http://www.merrycoz.org/yc/EXE.xhtml
Wikipedia has an article on the Youth's Companion here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Youth%27s_Companion
Kudos, Reignette, you win a free lifetime subscription to the Youth's Companion.
Thanks so much, Roger. Any connection to "youth" is just fine with me!
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 06-15-2015
What is the name of this building?
![[Image: buildingwhatisit1.jpg]](http://rogerjnorton.com/buildingwhatisit1.jpg)
RE: Assassination Trivia - BettyO - 06-15-2015
It's obviously a mill. There IS a mill in Maryland - Can't remember the name of it...it was posted on Dave's BoothieBarn, however!
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 06-15-2015
Excellent, Betty. You are on the right track. Now what was the mill's name?
Hint #1: There is a connection between the mill and one of the conspirators.
RE: Assassination Trivia - BettyO - 06-15-2015
I believe that the connection has to do with Atzerodt.....? Is it the Clopper Mill?
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 06-15-2015
Excellent, Betty! That's it! George Atzerodt spent the night of April 15, 1865, there.
http://patch.com/maryland/germantown/clopper-mills-place-in-history
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 06-15-2015
Thanks for the link to the article, Roger!
RE: Assassination Trivia - L Verge - 06-15-2015
(06-15-2015, 12:58 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Excellent, Betty! That's it! George Atzerodt spent the night of April 15, 1865, there.
http://patch.com/maryland/germantown/clopper-mills-place-in-history
That article is written by a member of the Surratt Society, and she came to our research center to do a bit of reading up on it.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 06-28-2015
Two children of someone known as well on this forum as to Abraham Lincoln himself witnessed the fateful April 14th performance of "Our American Cousin". Whose, and what were their names?