Mr. Lincoln's Photographer

[Christopher Handy]

(11-14-2018 03:21 PM)Steve Wrote:  I've recently been trying to find as many witness accounts/claims of being there of that night. Thanks for bringing Edward H. Handy to my attention!

According to the 1865 Washington DC directory, Handy was definitely living in the city then:


I also found the 15 March 1877 article from page 1 of the Baltimore Sun which mentions him at Ford's Theatre:

Note the difference in wording from the wire service version of the story. The Sun says Handy was "among the first" instead of "the first".

I also found this story from page 1 of the 28 April 1860 Baltimore Sun that might also be of interest if you're related to the family:


Welcome to the forum, Christopher!

My relationship is fairly distant; Edward H. Handy is my third cousin 6x removed. (He was apparently a Southern sympathiser, as well, as were many members of the Maryland Handy family, including Alexander Hamilton Handy, who moved to Mississippi and was secession commissioner to Maryland, and Rev. Isaac W.K. Handy, who was arrested for "disloyalty" while visiting his wife's family in Delaware and imprisoned at Fort Delaware for a year).