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Major Rathbone and Clara Harris
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Clara Harris
- Born: September 4, 1834
- Died: December 23, 1883
- American Socialite
- Married to Major Rathbone
- 3 kids: Henry Riggs, Gerald Lawrence and Clara Pauline
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Harris
https://blogs.weta.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rathbone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln
Major Rathbone
The assassination of President Lincoln
Major Rathbone and Clara Harris
- Born: July 1, 1837
- Died: August 14, 1911
- US military officer and diplomat
- Married to Clara Harris on July 11, 1867
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- Booth entered the box and Rathbone jumped to stop him.
- Rathbone gets cut on the left arm
- Booth shot Lincoln in the head then jumped to the stage
- Rathbone was unconscious from blood loss
- Lincoln died the next day
- Rathbone survives
After the Assassination
- Rathbone never got over it and blamed himself
- Clara was fine, divorce was not socially acceptable.
- Relocated to Europe
- December 23, Rathbone shot his wife and stabbed himself 6 times
- survived again, institutionalized in Germany, died there.
- Buried next to Clara in the city cemetary at Statfriedhof Engesohde
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